diff --git a/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Sentry.Bindings.Android.csproj b/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Sentry.Bindings.Android.csproj
index a6fc8e605e..c34b22a594 100644
--- a/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Sentry.Bindings.Android.csproj
+++ b/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Sentry.Bindings.Android.csproj
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
   <PropertyGroup>
     <TargetFrameworks>$(LatestAndroidTfm);$(PreviousAndroidTfm)</TargetFrameworks>
-    <SentryAndroidSdkVersion>8.29.0</SentryAndroidSdkVersion>
+    <SentryAndroidSdkVersion>8.32.0</SentryAndroidSdkVersion>
     <SentryAndroidSdkDirectory>$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)sdks\$(TargetFramework)\Sentry\Android\$(SentryAndroidSdkVersion)\</SentryAndroidSdkDirectory>
     <!-- This gets resolved by the DownloadSentryAndroidSdk unless using local maven references -->
     <SentryNativeNdkVersion></SentryNativeNdkVersion>
@@ -121,6 +121,12 @@
                        JavaArtifact="io.sentry:sentry-native-ndk:$(SentryNativeNdkVersion)" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
+  <!-- protobuf-javalite 3.25.8 has no matching/compatible Xamarin.Protobuf.JavaLite NuGet package
+       (see https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5044) -->
+  <ItemGroup>
+    <AndroidMavenLibrary Include="com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite" Version="3.25.8" Bind="false" />
+  </ItemGroup>
+
   <ItemGroup>
     <AndroidLibrary Include="..\..\lib\sentry-android-supplemental\bin\sentry-android-supplemental.jar" />
     <AndroidNativeLibrary Include="..\..\lib\sentrysupplemental\bin\arm64-v8a\libsentrysupplemental.so" Abi="arm64-v8a" />
diff --git a/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml b/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml
index dc9b56bee4..210c89f3fd 100644
--- a/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml
+++ b/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml
@@ -106,11 +106,9 @@
   <!--
     The BackfillingEventProcessor interface creates a stack overflow during code generation, which appears as:
       error MSB6006: "dotnet" exited with code 134
-    AnrV2EventProcessor is dependant on BackfillingEventProcessor
-    We currently don't need to use either of these via C# bindings.
+    We currently don't need to use this via C# bindings.
   -->
   <remove-node path="/api/package[@name='io.sentry']/interface[@name='BackfillingEventProcessor']" />
-  <remove-node path="/api/package[@name='io.sentry.android.core']/class[@name='AnrV2EventProcessor']" />
 
   <!--
     SentryEvent.serialize() expects an parameter which implements IObjectWriter.