diff --git a/contrib/android/Dockerfile b/contrib/android/Dockerfile
index 03a7b5db7..50d0793c2 100644
--- a/contrib/android/Dockerfile
+++ b/contrib/android/Dockerfile
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ RUN apt -y update -qq \
         build-essential \
         ccache \
         autoconf \
+        autopoint \
         libtool \
         pkg-config \
         zlib1g-dev \
diff --git a/contrib/android/p4a_recipes/libzbar/__init__.py b/contrib/android/p4a_recipes/libzbar/__init__.py
index 531ed598f..2a8fb9b23 100644
--- a/contrib/android/p4a_recipes/libzbar/__init__.py
+++ b/contrib/android/p4a_recipes/libzbar/__init__.py
@@ -6,13 +6,15 @@ from pythonforandroid.util import load_source
 util = load_source('util', os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'util.py'))
 
 
-assert LibZBarRecipe._version == "0.10"
 assert LibZBarRecipe.depends == ['libiconv']
 assert LibZBarRecipe.python_depends == []
 
 
 class LibZBarRecipePinned(util.InheritedRecipeMixin, LibZBarRecipe):
-    sha512sum = "d624f8ab114bf59c62e364f8b3e334bece48f5c11654739d810ed2b8553b8390a70763b0ae12d83c1472cfeda5d9e1a0b7c9c60228a79bf9f5a6fae4a9f7ccb9"
+    version = "bb05ec54eec57f8397cb13fb9161372a281a1219"
+    url = "https://github.com/mchehab/zbar/archive/{version}.zip"
+    sha512sum = "186312ef0a50404efef79a5fbed34534569fab2873a6bb6d2e3d8ea64fa461c5537ca4fb0e659670d72b021e514f8fd4651b1e85954bf987015d8eb2e6f68375"
+    patches = []  # werror.patch not needed for modern zbar
 
 
 recipe = LibZBarRecipePinned()
diff --git a/contrib/make_zbar.sh b/contrib/make_zbar.sh
index 0ea201510..e4cd1845a 100755
--- a/contrib/make_zbar.sh
+++ b/contrib/make_zbar.sh
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@
 # Or for a Windows x86_64 (64-bit) target, run:
 # $ GCC_TRIPLET_HOST="x86_64-w64-mingw32" BUILD_TYPE="wine" ./contrib/make_zbar.sh
 
-ZBAR_VERSION="aac86d5f08d64ab4c3da78188eb622fa3cb07182"
+ZBAR_VERSION="bb05ec54eec57f8397cb13fb9161372a281a1219"
+# ^ tag 0.23.93
 
 set -e