diff --git a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index abdb5465..8b8ccd38 100644
--- a/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/android/android-simple/app/src/main/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2,13 +2,22 @@ cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.20)
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
 
-include(FetchContent)
-FetchContent_Declare(kompute GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/KomputeProject/kompute.git
-                             GIT_TAG 1344ece4ac278f9b3be3b4555ffaace7a032b91f) # The commit hash for a dev version before v0.9.0. Replace with the latest from: https://github.com/KomputeProject/kompute/releases
+# Options
+option(KOMPUTE_OPT_GIT_TAG "The tag of the repo to use for the example" 1344ece4ac278f9b3be3b4555ffaace7a032b91f)
+option(KOMPUTE_OPT_FROM_SOURCE "Whether to build example from source or from git fetch repo" 0)
+
 set(KOMPUTE_OPT_ANDROID_BUILD ON)
 set(KOMPUTE_OPT_DISABLE_VK_DEBUG_LAYERS ON)
-FetchContent_MakeAvailable(kompute)
-include_directories(${kompute_SOURCE_DIR}/src/include)
+
+if(KOMPUTE_OPT_FROM_SOURCE)
+    add_subdirectory(../../../../../../../ ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/kompute_build)
+else()
+    include(FetchContent)
+    FetchContent_Declare(kompute GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/KomputeProject/kompute.git
+        GIT_TAG ${KOMPUTE_OPT_GIT_TAG})
+    FetchContent_MakeAvailable(kompute)
+    include_directories(${kompute_SOURCE_DIR}/src/include)
+endif()
 
 # Add to the list, so CMake can later find the code to compile shaders to header files
 list(APPEND CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH "${kompute_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")