diff --git a/testing/grpc-java/APKBUILD b/testing/grpc-java/APKBUILD
index ffc91a9a137..5f81f5bd461 100644
--- a/testing/grpc-java/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/grpc-java/APKBUILD
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ pkgver=1.10.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC"
 url="https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java"
-arch="all !aarch64" # fails to build on aarch64 for some strange reason
+arch="all !aarch64 !armhf" # fails to build on aarch64 and armhf for some strange reason
 license="Apache2"
 depends="openjdk8-jre"
 makedepends="openjdk8 protobuf-dev"