diff --git a/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs b/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs
index 1414766..5fc0a99 100644
--- a/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs
+++ b/android-activity/src/game_activity/mod.rs
@@ -925,6 +925,11 @@ pub unsafe extern "C" fn _rust_glue_entry(native_app: *mut ffi::android_app) {
         };
 
         unsafe {
+            // Name thread - this needs to happen here after attaching to a JVM thread,
+            // since that changes the thread name to something like "Thread-2".
+            let thread_name = std::ffi::CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(b"android_main\0").unwrap();
+            libc::pthread_setname_np(libc::pthread_self(), thread_name.as_ptr());
+
             let app = AndroidApp::from_ptr(NonNull::new(native_app).unwrap(), jvm.clone());
 
             // We want to specifically catch any panic from the application's android_main
diff --git a/android-activity/src/native_activity/glue.rs b/android-activity/src/native_activity/glue.rs
index 30f4843..2838d6a 100644
--- a/android-activity/src/native_activity/glue.rs
+++ b/android-activity/src/native_activity/glue.rs
@@ -868,6 +868,11 @@ extern "C" fn ANativeActivity_onCreate(
             rust_glue.notify_main_thread_running();
 
             unsafe {
+                // Name thread - this needs to happen here after attaching to a JVM thread,
+                // since that changes the thread name to something like "Thread-2".
+                let thread_name = std::ffi::CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(b"android_main\0").unwrap();
+                libc::pthread_setname_np(libc::pthread_self(), thread_name.as_ptr());
+
                 // We want to specifically catch any panic from the application's android_main
                 // so we can finish + destroy the Activity gracefully via the JVM
                 catch_unwind(|| {