diff --git a/android/config.go b/android/config.go
index 938758652..33735f853 100644
--- a/android/config.go
+++ b/android/config.go
@@ -91,10 +91,11 @@ type config struct {
 	ConfigFileName           string
 	ProductVariablesFileName string
 
-	Targets             map[OsType][]Target
-	BuildOSTarget       Target // the Target for tools run on the build machine
-	BuildOSCommonTarget Target // the Target for common (java) tools run on the build machine
-	AndroidCommonTarget Target // the Target for common modules for the Android device
+	Targets                  map[OsType][]Target
+	BuildOSTarget            Target // the Target for tools run on the build machine
+	BuildOSCommonTarget      Target // the Target for common (java) tools run on the build machine
+	AndroidCommonTarget      Target // the Target for common modules for the Android device
+	AndroidFirstDeviceTarget Target // the first Target for modules for the Android device
 
 	// multilibConflicts for an ArchType is true if there is earlier configured device architecture with the same
 	// multilib value.
@@ -320,6 +321,7 @@ func TestArchConfig(buildDir string, env map[string]string, bp string, fs map[st
 	config.BuildOSTarget = config.Targets[BuildOs][0]
 	config.BuildOSCommonTarget = getCommonTargets(config.Targets[BuildOs])[0]
 	config.AndroidCommonTarget = getCommonTargets(config.Targets[Android])[0]
+	config.AndroidFirstDeviceTarget = firstTarget(config.Targets[Android], "lib64", "lib32")[0]
 	config.TestProductVariables.DeviceArch = proptools.StringPtr("arm64")
 	config.TestProductVariables.DeviceArchVariant = proptools.StringPtr("armv8-a")
 	config.TestProductVariables.DeviceSecondaryArch = proptools.StringPtr("arm")
@@ -429,6 +431,7 @@ func NewConfig(srcDir, buildDir string, moduleListFile string) (Config, error) {
 	config.BuildOSCommonTarget = getCommonTargets(config.Targets[BuildOs])[0]
 	if len(config.Targets[Android]) > 0 {
 		config.AndroidCommonTarget = getCommonTargets(config.Targets[Android])[0]
+		config.AndroidFirstDeviceTarget = firstTarget(config.Targets[Android], "lib64", "lib32")[0]
 	}
 
 	if err := config.fromEnv(); err != nil {
diff --git a/java/app.go b/java/app.go
index c25835c41..e788ca99f 100755
--- a/java/app.go
+++ b/java/app.go
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ func (a *AndroidApp) jniBuildActions(jniLibs []jniLib, ctx android.ModuleContext
 					// Work with the team to come up with a new format that handles multilib modules properly
 					// and change this.
 					if len(ctx.Config().Targets[android.Android]) == 1 ||
-						ctx.Config().Targets[android.Android][0].Arch.ArchType == jni.target.Arch.ArchType {
+						ctx.Config().AndroidFirstDeviceTarget.Arch.ArchType == jni.target.Arch.ArchType {
 						a.jniCoverageOutputs = append(a.jniCoverageOutputs, jni.coverageFile.Path())
 					}
 				}
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ func (a *AndroidAppImport) processVariants(ctx android.LoadHookContext) {
 	}
 
 	archProps := reflect.ValueOf(a.archVariants).Elem().FieldByName("Arch")
-	archType := ctx.Config().Targets[android.Android][0].Arch.ArchType
+	archType := ctx.Config().AndroidFirstDeviceTarget.Arch.ArchType
 	MergePropertiesFromVariant(ctx, &a.properties, archProps, archType.Name)
 }
 
diff --git a/rust/project_json.go b/rust/project_json.go
index 8d161b2d7..569740831 100644
--- a/rust/project_json.go
+++ b/rust/project_json.go
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ func librarySource(ctx android.SingletonContext, rModule *Module, rustLib *libra
 			return "", false
 		}
 	default:
-		if rModule.Target().String() != ctx.Config().Targets[android.Android][0].String() {
+		if rModule.Target().String() != ctx.Config().AndroidFirstDeviceTarget.String() {
 			return "", false
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/sh/sh_binary.go b/sh/sh_binary.go
index 7c3cdbdbb..e8078776c 100644
--- a/sh/sh_binary.go
+++ b/sh/sh_binary.go
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ func (s *ShTest) DepsMutator(ctx android.BottomUpMutatorContext) {
 	ctx.AddFarVariationDependencies(append(ctx.Target().Variations(), sharedLibVariations...),
 		shTestDataLibsTag, s.testProperties.Data_libs...)
 	if ctx.Target().Os.Class == android.Host && len(ctx.Config().Targets[android.Android]) > 0 {
-		deviceVariations := ctx.Config().Targets[android.Android][0].Variations()
+		deviceVariations := ctx.Config().AndroidFirstDeviceTarget.Variations()
 		ctx.AddFarVariationDependencies(deviceVariations, shTestDataDeviceBinsTag, s.testProperties.Data_device_bins...)
 		ctx.AddFarVariationDependencies(append(deviceVariations, sharedLibVariations...),
 			shTestDataDeviceLibsTag, s.testProperties.Data_device_libs...)