diff --git a/android/Bootstrap/src/org/libreoffice/android/Bootstrap.java b/android/Bootstrap/src/org/libreoffice/android/Bootstrap.java
index c60c9e975a64..443b770f90d5 100644
--- a/android/Bootstrap/src/org/libreoffice/android/Bootstrap.java
+++ b/android/Bootstrap/src/org/libreoffice/android/Bootstrap.java
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ import android.util.Log;
 import fi.iki.tml.CommandLine;
 
 import java.io.File;
+import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Scanner;
 
@@ -73,7 +74,10 @@ public class Bootstrap extends NativeActivity
 
     // To be called after you are sure libgnustl_shared.so
     // has been loaded
-    public static native void patch_libgnustl_shared();
+    static native void patch_libgnustl_shared();
+
+    // Extracts files in the .apk that need to be extraced into the app's tree
+    static native void extract_files();
 
     // Wrapper for getpid()
     public static native int getpid();
@@ -97,6 +101,8 @@ public class Bootstrap extends NativeActivity
     // (contentbroker.cxx), also this called indirectly through the lo-bootstrap library
     public static native void initUCBHelper();
 
+    // This setup() method is called 1) in apps that use *this* class as their activity from onCreate(),
+    // and 2) should be called from other kinds of LO code using apps.
     public static void setup(Activity activity)
     {
         String dataDir = null;
@@ -114,6 +120,13 @@ public class Bootstrap extends NativeActivity
         if (!setup(dataDir, activity.getApplication().getPackageResourcePath(), llpa))
             return;
 
+        // We build LO code against the shared GNU C++ library
+        dlopen("libgnustl_shared.so");
+        // and need to patch it.
+        patch_libgnustl_shared();
+
+        // Extract files from the .apk that can't be used mmapped directly from it
+        extract_files();
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/android/experiments/DocumentLoader/src/org/libreoffice/android/examples/DocumentLoader.java b/android/experiments/DocumentLoader/src/org/libreoffice/android/examples/DocumentLoader.java
index d47a6ef5edee..93ed87e26cfd 100644
--- a/android/experiments/DocumentLoader/src/org/libreoffice/android/examples/DocumentLoader.java
+++ b/android/experiments/DocumentLoader/src/org/libreoffice/android/examples/DocumentLoader.java
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@ public class DocumentLoader
 
             Bootstrap.putenv("SAL_LOG=yes");
 
-            Bootstrap.dlopen("libgnustl_shared.so");
-            Bootstrap.patch_libgnustl_shared();
-
             // Load a lot of shlibs here explicitly in advance because that
             // makes debugging work better, sigh
             Bootstrap.dlopen("libvcllo.so");
diff --git a/sal/android/lo-bootstrap.c b/sal/android/lo-bootstrap.c
index a216e0d1419c..75a389809014 100644
--- a/sal/android/lo-bootstrap.c
+++ b/sal/android/lo-bootstrap.c
@@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ extract_files(const char *prefix)
     lo_apk_closedir(tree);
 }
 
-// public static native void patch_libgnustl_shared();
+// static native void patch_libgnustl_shared();
 
 __attribute__ ((visibility("default")))
 void
@@ -1531,6 +1531,19 @@ Java_org_libreoffice_android_Bootstrap_patch_1libgnustl_1shared(JNIEnv* env,
     patch_libgnustl_shared();
 }
 
+// static native void extract_files();
+
+__attribute__ ((visibility("default")))
+void
+Java_org_libreoffice_android_Bootstrap_extract_1files(JNIEnv* env,
+                                                      jobject clazz)
+{
+    (void) env;
+    (void) clazz;
+
+    extract_files(UNPACK_TREE);
+}
+
 /* Android's JNI works only to libraries loaded through Java's
  * System.loadLibrary(), it seems. Not to functions loaded by a dlopen() call
  * in native code. For instance, to call a function in libvcllo.so, we need to
@@ -1666,10 +1679,6 @@ android_main(struct android_app* state)
         lo_main_argv[0] = lo_main_info.dli_fname;
     }
 
-    patch_libgnustl_shared();
-
-    extract_files(UNPACK_TREE);
-
     lo_main(lo_main_argc, lo_main_argv);
     fprintf (stderr, "exit android_main\n");
 }