diff --git a/talk/app/webrtc/java/jni/peerconnection_jni.cc b/talk/app/webrtc/java/jni/peerconnection_jni.cc
index 364d1963b..a0aa1d4a5 100644
--- a/talk/app/webrtc/java/jni/peerconnection_jni.cc
+++ b/talk/app/webrtc/java/jni/peerconnection_jni.cc
@@ -1892,11 +1892,14 @@ JOW(jlong, PeerConnectionFactory_nativeCreateObserver)(
 
 #ifdef ANDROID
 JOW(jboolean, PeerConnectionFactory_initializeAndroidGlobals)(
-    JNIEnv* jni, jclass, jobject context) {
+    JNIEnv* jni, jclass, jobject context,
+    jboolean initialize_audio, jboolean initialize_video) {
   CHECK(g_jvm, "JNI_OnLoad failed to run?");
   bool failure = false;
-  failure |= webrtc::VideoEngine::SetAndroidObjects(g_jvm);
-  failure |= webrtc::VoiceEngine::SetAndroidObjects(g_jvm, jni, context);
+  if (initialize_video)
+    failure |= webrtc::VideoEngine::SetAndroidObjects(g_jvm);
+  if (initialize_audio)
+    failure |= webrtc::VoiceEngine::SetAndroidObjects(g_jvm, jni, context);
   return !failure;
 }
 #endif  // ANDROID
diff --git a/talk/app/webrtc/java/src/org/webrtc/PeerConnectionFactory.java b/talk/app/webrtc/java/src/org/webrtc/PeerConnectionFactory.java
index 0d047800b..441f37ba0 100644
--- a/talk/app/webrtc/java/src/org/webrtc/PeerConnectionFactory.java
+++ b/talk/app/webrtc/java/src/org/webrtc/PeerConnectionFactory.java
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@ public class PeerConnectionFactory {
 
   // |context| is an android.content.Context object, but we keep it untyped here
   // to allow building on non-Android platforms.
-  public static native boolean initializeAndroidGlobals(Object context);
+  // Callers may specify either |initializeAudio| or |initializeVideo| as false
+  // to skip initializing the respective engine (and avoid the need for the
+  // respective permissions).
+  public static native boolean initializeAndroidGlobals(
+      Object context, boolean initializeAudio, boolean initializeVideo);
 
   public PeerConnectionFactory() {
     nativeFactory = nativeCreatePeerConnectionFactory();
diff --git a/talk/examples/android/src/org/appspot/apprtc/AppRTCDemoActivity.java b/talk/examples/android/src/org/appspot/apprtc/AppRTCDemoActivity.java
index 28ac53d58..0ab47a962 100644
--- a/talk/examples/android/src/org/appspot/apprtc/AppRTCDemoActivity.java
+++ b/talk/examples/android/src/org/appspot/apprtc/AppRTCDemoActivity.java
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ public class AppRTCDemoActivity extends Activity
     addContentView(hudView, hudLayout);
 
     if (!factoryStaticInitialized) {
-      abortUnless(PeerConnectionFactory.initializeAndroidGlobals(this),
+      abortUnless(PeerConnectionFactory.initializeAndroidGlobals(
+          this, true, true),
         "Failed to initializeAndroidGlobals");
       factoryStaticInitialized = true;
     }