diff --git a/src/Xamarin.Android.Tools.Bytecode/ClassPath.cs b/src/Xamarin.Android.Tools.Bytecode/ClassPath.cs
index 03429747b..34ff92628 100644
--- a/src/Xamarin.Android.Tools.Bytecode/ClassPath.cs
+++ b/src/Xamarin.Android.Tools.Bytecode/ClassPath.cs
@@ -240,6 +240,16 @@ JavaDocletType GetDocletType (string path)
 				kind = JavaDocletType.Java7;
 			else if (rawHTML.Contains ("Generated by javadoc (1.8"))
 				kind = JavaDocletType.Java8;
+
+			// Check to see if it's an api.xml formatted doc
+			string rawXML = null;
+			using (var reader = File.OpenText (path)) {
+				int len = reader.ReadBlock (buf, 0, buf.Length);
+				rawXML = new string (buf, 0, len);
+			}
+			if (rawXML.Contains ("<api>") && rawXML.Contains ("<package"))
+				kind = JavaDocletType._ApiXml;
+
 			return kind;
 		}