diff --git a/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util.cpp b/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util.cpp
index 708bed80555b1..90fc10add7e6d 100644
--- a/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util.cpp
+++ b/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util.cpp
@@ -140,12 +140,27 @@ static xml::NamespaceDecl CreateAndroidNamespaceDecl() {
   return decl;
 }
 
+// Returns a copy of 'name' which conforms to the regex '[a-zA-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9_]*' by
+// replacing nonconforming characters with underscores.
+//
+// See frameworks/base/core/java/android/content/pm/PackageParser.java which
+// checks this at runtime.
 static std::string MakePackageSafeName(const std::string &name) {
   std::string result(name);
+  bool first = true;
   for (char &c : result) {
-    if (c == '-') {
-      c = '_';
+    if ((c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') || (c >= 'A' && c <= 'Z')) {
+      first = false;
+      continue;
     }
+    if (!first) {
+      if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') {
+        continue;
+      }
+    }
+
+    c = '_';
+    first = false;
   }
   return result;
 }
diff --git a/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util_test.cpp b/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util_test.cpp
index 9c33135f228d9..0c527f6a90dc3 100644
--- a/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util_test.cpp
+++ b/tools/aapt2/cmd/Util_test.cpp
@@ -24,15 +24,16 @@ namespace aapt {
 
 TEST(UtilTest, SplitNamesAreSanitized) {
     AppInfo app_info{"com.pkg"};
-    SplitConstraints split_constraints{{test::ParseConfigOrDie("en-rUS-land")}};
+    SplitConstraints split_constraints{
+        {test::ParseConfigOrDie("en-rUS-land"), test::ParseConfigOrDie("b+sr+Latn")}};
 
     const auto doc = GenerateSplitManifest(app_info, split_constraints);
     const auto &root = doc->root;
     EXPECT_EQ(root->name, "manifest");
-    // split names cannot contain hyphens
-    EXPECT_EQ(root->FindAttribute("", "split")->value, "config.en_rUS_land");
+    // split names cannot contain hyphens or plus signs.
+    EXPECT_EQ(root->FindAttribute("", "split")->value, "config.b_sr_Latn_en_rUS_land");
     // but we should use resource qualifiers verbatim in 'targetConfig'.
-    EXPECT_EQ(root->FindAttribute("", "targetConfig")->value, "en-rUS-land");
+    EXPECT_EQ(root->FindAttribute("", "targetConfig")->value, "b+sr+Latn,en-rUS-land");
 }
 
 }  // namespace aapt