diff --git a/examples/android/src/lib.rs b/examples/android/src/lib.rs
index 87014cc..da4ef23 100644
--- a/examples/android/src/lib.rs
+++ b/examples/android/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
+use std::thread;
+use std::time::Duration;
 use tts::*;
 
 fn run() -> Result<(), Error> {
     let mut tts = TTS::default()?;
+    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(5));
     let Features {
         utterance_callbacks,
         ..
diff --git a/src/backends/android.rs b/src/backends/android.rs
index 65fa756..6a2e200 100644
--- a/src/backends/android.rs
+++ b/src/backends/android.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 use std::sync::Mutex;
 
 use jni::objects::{GlobalRef, JObject};
-use jni::JNIEnv;
 use jni::JavaVM;
 use lazy_static::lazy_static;
 use log::info;
@@ -27,7 +26,7 @@ impl Android {
         *backend_id += 1;
         let native_activity = ndk_glue::native_activity();
         let vm = Self::vm()?;
-        let env = vm.attach_current_thread()?;
+        let env = vm.attach_current_thread_permanently()?;
         let tts = env.new_object(
             "android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech",
             "(Landroid/content/Context;Landroid/speech/tts/TextToSpeech$OnInitListener;)V",
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ impl Backend for Android {
         println!("Speaking {}, {:?}", text, interrupt);
         let vm = Self::vm()?;
         println!("Retrieved");
-        let env = vm.attach_current_thread()?;
+        let env = vm.get_env()?;
         println!("attached");
         let tts = self.tts.as_obj();
         let text = env.new_string(text)?;