diff --git a/src/plugins/android/androidmanager.cpp b/src/plugins/android/androidmanager.cpp
index 84532676f99..3c1a5301add 100644
--- a/src/plugins/android/androidmanager.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/android/androidmanager.cpp
@@ -269,7 +269,20 @@ FilePath AndroidManager::buildDirectory(const Target *target)
 {
     if (const BuildSystem *bs = target->buildSystem()) {
         const QString buildKey = target->activeBuildKey();
-        const FilePath buildDir = bs->buildTarget(target->activeBuildKey()).workingDirectory;
+
+        // Get the target build dir based on the settings file path
+        FilePath buildDir;
+        const ProjectNode *node = target->project()->findNodeForBuildKey(buildKey);
+        if (node) {
+            const QString settingsFile = node->data(Constants::AndroidDeploySettingsFile).toString();
+            buildDir = FilePath::fromUserInput(settingsFile).parentDir();
+        }
+
+        if (!buildDir.isEmpty())
+            return buildDir;
+
+        // Otherwise fallback to target working dir
+        buildDir = bs->buildTarget(target->activeBuildKey()).workingDirectory;
         if (isQt5CmakeProject(target)) {
             // Return the main build dir and not the android libs dir
             const QString libsDir = QString(Constants::ANDROID_BUILD_DIRECTORY) + "/libs";
diff --git a/src/plugins/android/androidpackageinstallationstep.cpp b/src/plugins/android/androidpackageinstallationstep.cpp
index 9212443b7ea..aa458c63a76 100644
--- a/src/plugins/android/androidpackageinstallationstep.cpp
+++ b/src/plugins/android/androidpackageinstallationstep.cpp
@@ -67,10 +67,6 @@ public:
     AndroidPackageInstallationStep(BuildStepList *bsl, Id id);
 
     QString nativeAndroidBuildPath() const;
-
-    Utils::FilePath androidBuildDirectory() const;
-    Utils::FilePath buildDirectory() const;
-
 private:
     bool init() final;
     void setupOutputFormatter(OutputFormatter *formatter) final;
@@ -108,7 +104,7 @@ bool AndroidPackageInstallationStep::init()
 
     processParameters()->setCommandLine(cmd);
     // This is useful when running an example target from a Qt module project.
-    processParameters()->setWorkingDirectory(buildDirectory());
+    processParameters()->setWorkingDirectory(AndroidManager::buildDirectory(target()));
 
     m_androidDirsToClean.clear();
     // don't remove gradle's cache, it takes ages to rebuild it.
@@ -120,7 +116,7 @@ bool AndroidPackageInstallationStep::init()
 
 QString AndroidPackageInstallationStep::nativeAndroidBuildPath() const
 {
-    QString buildPath = androidBuildDirectory().toString();
+    QString buildPath = AndroidManager::androidBuildDirectory(target()).toString();
     if (HostOsInfo::isWindowsHost())
         if (buildEnvironment().searchInPath("sh.exe").isEmpty())
             buildPath = QDir::toNativeSeparators(buildPath);
@@ -128,18 +124,6 @@ QString AndroidPackageInstallationStep::nativeAndroidBuildPath() const
     return buildPath;
 }
 
-FilePath AndroidPackageInstallationStep::androidBuildDirectory() const
-{
-    return buildDirectory() / Constants::ANDROID_BUILD_DIRECTORY;
-}
-
-FilePath AndroidPackageInstallationStep::buildDirectory() const
-{
-    if (const BuildSystem *bs = buildSystem())
-        return buildSystem()->buildTarget(target()->activeBuildKey()).workingDirectory;
-    return {};
-}
-
 void AndroidPackageInstallationStep::setupOutputFormatter(OutputFormatter *formatter)
 {
     formatter->addLineParser(new GnuMakeParser);