diff --git a/src/android/AssetFilesystem.java b/src/android/AssetFilesystem.java
index 6d766a4a..f3e63239 100644
--- a/src/android/AssetFilesystem.java
+++ b/src/android/AssetFilesystem.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.ObjectInputStream;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ private String[] listAssets(String assetPath) throws IOException {
             if (listCacheFromFile) {
                 ret = new String[0];
             } else {
-                ret = assetManager.list(assetPath);
+                ret = assetManager.list(URLDecoder.decode(assetPath, "utf-8"));
                 listCache.put(assetPath, ret);
             }
         }