diff --git a/src/plugins/android/androidrunnerworker.cpp b/src/plugins/android/androidrunnerworker.cpp
index 96508910e60..197c2fa0c18 100644
--- a/src/plugins/android/androidrunnerworker.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/android/androidrunnerworker.cpp
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ using namespace Utils;
 namespace Android {
 namespace Internal {
 
-static const QString pidScript = "pidof -s \"%1\"";
+static const QString pidScript = "pidof -s '%1'";
 static const QString pidScriptPreNougat = QStringLiteral("for p in /proc/[0-9]*; "
                                                 "do cat <$p/cmdline && echo :${p##*/}; done");
 static const QString pidPollingScript = QStringLiteral("while [ -d /proc/%1 ]; do sleep 1; done");