diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 765426f04..96e5f8076 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -90,3 +90,6 @@
 [submodule "project/jni/sdl2_image"]
 	path = project/jni/sdl2_image
 	url = https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_image
+[submodule "project/jni/sdl2_ttf"]
+	path = project/jni/sdl2_ttf
+	url = https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf.git
diff --git a/project/jni/SDL2_ttf/include b/project/jni/SDL2_ttf/include
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..c173799d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project/jni/SDL2_ttf/include
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../sdl2_ttf
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/project/jni/application/supertux/AndroidAppSettings.cfg b/project/jni/application/supertux/AndroidAppSettings.cfg
index ddd92a97f..3b6123a7f 100644
--- a/project/jni/application/supertux/AndroidAppSettings.cfg
+++ b/project/jni/application/supertux/AndroidAppSettings.cfg
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ MultiABI='arm64-v8a'
 # Optional shared libraries to compile - removing some of them will save space
 # MP3 patents are expired, but libmad license is GPL, not LGPL
 # Available libraries: mad (GPL-ed!) sdl_mixer sdl_image sdl_ttf sdl_net sdl_blitpool sdl_gfx sdl_sound intl xml2 lua jpeg png ogg flac tremor vorbis freetype xerces curl theora fluidsynth lzma lzo2 mikmod openal timidity zzip bzip2 yaml-cpp python boost_date_time boost_filesystem boost_iostreams boost_program_options boost_regex boost_signals boost_system boost_thread glu avcodec avdevice avfilter avformat avresample avutil swscale swresample bzip2 
-CompiledLibraries="c++_shared SDL2_image glm boost_filesystem boost_system boost_date_time boost_locale icuuc icudata iconv charset crypto ssl curl openal vorbis ogg"
+CompiledLibraries="c++_shared SDL2_image SDL2_ttf glm boost_filesystem boost_system boost_date_time boost_locale icuuc icudata iconv charset crypto ssl curl openal vorbis ogg"
 
 # Application uses custom build script AndroidBuild.sh instead of Android.mk (y) or (n)
 CustomBuildScript=n
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ AppLdflags='-frtti -fexceptions -Oz'
 AppOverlapsSystemHeaders=n
 
 # Build only following subdirs (empty will build all dirs, ignored with custom script)
-AppSubdirsBuild='. supertux/src/* supertux/external/findlocale supertux/external/obstack supertux/external/squirrel/include supertux/external/squirrel/squirrel supertux/external/squirrel/sqstdlib supertux/external/tinygettext/include supertux/external/tinygettext/src supertux/external/sexp-cpp/include supertux/external/sexp-cpp/src supertux/external/physfs/src supertux/external/partio_zip supertux/external/SDL_SavePNG supertux/external/SDL_ttf'
+AppSubdirsBuild='. supertux/src/* supertux/external/findlocale supertux/external/obstack supertux/external/squirrel/include supertux/external/squirrel/squirrel supertux/external/squirrel/sqstdlib supertux/external/tinygettext/include supertux/external/tinygettext/src supertux/external/sexp-cpp/include supertux/external/sexp-cpp/src supertux/external/physfs/src supertux/external/partio_zip supertux/external/SDL_SavePNG'
 
 # Exclude these files from build
 AppBuildExclude='supertux/external/findlocale/example.c supertux/src/video/sdl supertux/external/SDL_SavePNG/main.c'
diff --git a/project/jni/sdl2_ttf b/project/jni/sdl2_ttf
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..29e2cce5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/project/jni/sdl2_ttf
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 29e2cce5ebbaa1a705b77219f384c9dac968df4d