diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index aae6b79f..ae5ede17 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -47,9 +47,7 @@ A C++ toolchain: [required]
         Either {g++, clang}
 
 Meson Build system: [required]
-        meson (>= 0.53) ninja-build pkg-config
-
-        meson (>= 0.55) is required for building Android (-Dandroid=enabled)
+        meson (>= 0.56) ninja-build pkg-config
 
         If your distribution doesn't provide a recent enough version of meson,
         you can install or upgrade it using pip3.
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 29d8542d..b892ba84 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,11 +1,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
 
 project('libcamera', 'c', 'cpp',
-    # Use of the Android component requires meson 0.55, but Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
-    # ships meson 0.53. Improve the Ubuntu experience at the expense of
-    # Android as the former is a much more common use case than the latter at
-    # this point. This should be fixed after Ubuntu releases 22.04 LTS.
-    meson_version : '>= 0.53',
+    meson_version : '>= 0.56',
     version : '0.0.0',
     default_options : [
         'werror=true',