diff --git a/.github/workflows/rust.yml b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
index fe62ded3..bfb25296 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/rust.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/rust.yml
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up cargo cache
         uses: Swatinem/rust-cache@v2
 
-      - run: cargo check --features wgpu --target aarch64-linux-android
+      - run: cargo check --features wgpu,android-native-activity --target aarch64-linux-android
         working-directory: crates/eframe
 
   # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 648194dc..1af8f614 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1272,7 +1272,6 @@ name = "egui-winit"
 version = "0.21.1"
 dependencies = [
  "accesskit_winit",
- "android-activity",
  "arboard",
  "document-features",
  "egui",
diff --git a/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml b/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
index 3f62b0c8..649a55a1 100644
--- a/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/eframe/Cargo.toml
@@ -69,6 +69,15 @@ __screenshot = ["dep:image"]
 ## This overrides the `glow` feature.
 wgpu = ["dep:wgpu", "dep:egui-wgpu", "dep:pollster"]
 
+# Allow crates to choose an android-activity backend via Winit
+# - It's important that most applications should not have to depend on android-activity directly, and can
+#   rely on Winit to pull in a suitable version (unlike most Rust crates, any version conflicts won't link)
+# - It's also important that we don't impose an android-activity backend by taking this choice away from applications.
+
+## Enable the `native-activity` backend via `egui-winit` on Android
+android-native-activity = [ "egui-winit/android-native-activity" ]
+## Enable the `game-activity` backend via `egui-winit` on Android
+android-game-activity = [ "egui-winit/android-game-activity" ]
 
 [dependencies]
 egui = { version = "0.21.0", path = "../egui", default-features = false, features = [
diff --git a/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml b/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
index 46a16a9d..bd576ebf 100644
--- a/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/egui-winit/Cargo.toml
@@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ serde = ["egui/serde", "dep:serde"]
 ## Enables Wayland support.
 wayland = ["winit/wayland"]
 
+# Allow crates to choose an android-activity backend via Winit
+# - It's important that most applications should not have to depend on android-activity directly, and can
+#   rely on Winit to pull in a suitable version (unlike most Rust crates, any version conflicts won't link)
+# - It's also important that we don't impose an android-activity backend by taking this choice away from applications.
+
+## Enable the `native-activity` backend via Winit on Android
+android-native-activity = [ "winit/android-native-activity" ]
+## Enable the `game-activity` backend via Winit on Android
+android-game-activity = [ "winit/android-game-activity" ]
+
 [dependencies]
 egui = { version = "0.21.0", path = "../egui", default-features = false, features = [
   "tracing",
@@ -76,6 +86,3 @@ smithay-clipboard = { version = "0.6.3", optional = true }
 [target.'cfg(not(target_os = "android"))'.dependencies]
 arboard = { version = "3.2", optional = true, default-features = false }
 
-[target.'cfg(target_os = "android")'.dependencies]
-# TODO(emilk): this is probably not the right place for specifying native-activity, but we need to do it somewhere for the CI
-android-activity = { version = "0.4", features = ["native-activity"] }