diff --git a/api/current.txt b/api/current.txt
index 4057a1935fbd7..79f9d0f799869 100644
--- a/api/current.txt
+++ b/api/current.txt
@@ -15019,6 +15019,7 @@ package android.media {
     field public static final java.lang.String KEY_REFERENCE_CLOCK_ID = "reference-clock-id";
     field public static final java.lang.String KEY_REPEAT_PREVIOUS_FRAME_AFTER = "repeat-previous-frame-after";
     field public static final java.lang.String KEY_SAMPLE_RATE = "sample-rate";
+    field public static final java.lang.String KEY_TEMPORAL_LAYERING = "ts-schema";
     field public static final java.lang.String KEY_WIDTH = "width";
     field public static final java.lang.String MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AAC = "audio/mp4a-latm";
     field public static final java.lang.String MIMETYPE_AUDIO_AC3 = "audio/ac3";
diff --git a/media/java/android/media/MediaFormat.java b/media/java/android/media/MediaFormat.java
index b5cebe32ffdc1..a95348f691407 100644
--- a/media/java/android/media/MediaFormat.java
+++ b/media/java/android/media/MediaFormat.java
@@ -212,6 +212,18 @@ public final class MediaFormat {
      */
     public static final String KEY_I_FRAME_INTERVAL = "i-frame-interval";
 
+    /**
+     * A key describing the temporal layering schema.  This is an optional parameter
+     * that applies only to video encoders.  Use {@link MediaCodec#getInputFormat}
+     * after {@link MediaCodec#configure configure} to query if the encoder supports
+     * the desired schema. Supported values are {@code webrtc.vp8.1-layer},
+     * {@code webrtc.vp8.2-layer}, {@code webrtc.vp8.3-layer}, and {@code none}.
+     * If the encoder does not support temporal layering, the input format will
+     * not have an entry with this key.
+     * The associated value is a string.
+     */
+    public static final String KEY_TEMPORAL_LAYERING = "ts-schema";
+
     /**
      * @hide
      */