diff --git a/android/installToolchain.sh b/android/installToolchain.sh
index fd67fdab9c..e0c5d3a5f2 100755
--- a/android/installToolchain.sh
+++ b/android/installToolchain.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ set -e
 # http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
 SDK_URL="http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r07-linux_x86.tgz"
 # http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
-NDK_URL="http://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-r5-linux-x86.zip"
+NDK_URL="http://dl.google.com/android/ndk/android-ndk-r5-linux-x86.tar.bz2"
 
 prefix="${INSTALL_PREFIX:-$HOME}"
 dldir="${DOWNLOAD_DIR:-/tmp}"
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ download_and_extract() {
         tgz|tar.gz)
             (cd $prefix; tar -xf "$local_file")
             ;;
+        tar.bz2)
+            (cd $prefix; tar -xjf "$local_file")
+            ;;
         *)
             echo "Couldn't figure out how to extract $local_file" ! 1>&2
             ;;