diff --git a/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Sentry.Bindings.Android.csproj b/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Sentry.Bindings.Android.csproj
index 57c61275ce..0febb8b73d 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>8.34.1</SentryAndroidSdkVersion>
+    <SentryAndroidSdkVersion>8.35.0</SentryAndroidSdkVersion>
     <SentryAndroidSdkDirectory>$(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)sdks\$(TargetFramework)\Sentry\Android\$(SentryAndroidSdkVersion)\</SentryAndroidSdkDirectory>
     <!-- This gets resolved by the DownloadSentryAndroidSdk unless using local maven references -->
     <SentryNativeNdkVersion></SentryNativeNdkVersion>
@@ -121,10 +121,9 @@
                        JavaArtifact="io.sentry:sentry-native-ndk:$(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) -->
+  <!-- A light-weight replacement for protobuf-javalite (see https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/5157) -->
   <ItemGroup>
-    <AndroidMavenLibrary Include="com.google.protobuf:protobuf-javalite" Version="3.25.8" Bind="false" />
+    <AndroidMavenLibrary Include="com.abovevacant:epitaph" Version="0.1.0" Bind="false" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml b/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml
index c7a669f839..bc23ddbc6c 100644
--- a/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml
+++ b/src/Sentry.Bindings.Android/Transforms/Metadata.xml
@@ -86,6 +86,13 @@
     </method>
   </add-node>
 
+  <!-- Fix missing compareTo(Object) method for AnrStackTrace -->
+  <add-node path="/api/package[@name='io.sentry.android.core.anr']/class[@name='AnrStackTrace']">
+    <method name="compareTo" return="int" abstract="false" native="false" synchronized="false" static="false" final="false" deprecated="not deprecated" visibility="public">
+        <parameter name="p0" type="java.lang.Object" />
+    </method>
+  </add-node>
+
   <!-- Remove problematic deprecated methods in the IScopes interface -->
   <remove-node path="/api/package[@name='io.sentry']/interface[@name='IScopes']/method[@deprecated]" />