diff --git a/tools/update_android_version.sh b/tools/update_android_version.sh
index 823249ad1793712ada9b744edbc68b0c893af2f0..b78d4b8e723c95b0477821dd9a48324e8e6785f7 100755
--- a/tools/update_android_version.sh
+++ b/tools/update_android_version.sh
@@ -10,10 +10,9 @@ VERSIONCODE=$(($(($patch*1000)) + $VERSIONCODE))
 VERSIONCODE=$(($(($dev)) + $VERSIONCODE))
 
 # The android versionCode is for the entire package. It is the same for the 32 and 64 bit APKs.
-# At one point it was thought the versionCode was specific to APK. Hence the 32/64 bitness was
-# included as a prefix. That was incorrect. But now we are stuck with version codes starting with
-# a prefix of 64.
-VERSIONCODE=64$VERSIONCODE
+# Due to various screwups in versioning/tagging the version code needs to be prepended with 65 to
+# make it larger than all previous version codes.
+VERSIONCODE=65$VERSIONCODE
 
 MANIFEST_FILE=android/AndroidManifest.xml