diff --git a/Database/SQLite3/Direct.hs b/Database/SQLite3/Direct.hs
--- a/Database/SQLite3/Direct.hs
+++ b/Database/SQLite3/Direct.hs
@@ -137,6 +137,8 @@
 
 import qualified Data.ByteString            as BS
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Unsafe     as BSU
+import qualified Data.List.NonEmpty         as NEL
+import Data.Semigroup       (Semigroup ((<>), sconcat))
 import qualified Data.Text as T
 import qualified Data.Text.Encoding as T
 import Control.Applicative  ((<$>))
@@ -144,7 +146,7 @@
 import Control.Monad        (join, unless)
 import Data.ByteString      (ByteString)
 import Data.IORef
-import Data.Monoid
+import Data.Monoid          (Monoid (mempty, mappend, mconcat))
 import Data.String          (IsString(..))
 import Data.Text.Encoding.Error (lenientDecode)
 import Foreign
@@ -178,9 +180,13 @@
 instance IsString Utf8 where
     fromString = Utf8 . T.encodeUtf8 . T.pack
 
+instance Semigroup Utf8 where
+    Utf8 a <> Utf8 b = Utf8 (BS.append a b)
+    sconcat = Utf8 . BS.concat . NEL.toList . fmap (\(Utf8 s) -> s)
+
 instance Monoid Utf8 where
     mempty = Utf8 BS.empty
-    mappend (Utf8 a) (Utf8 b) = Utf8 (BS.append a b)
+    mappend = (<>)
     mconcat = Utf8 . BS.concat . map (\(Utf8 s) -> s)
 
 packUtf8 :: a -> (Utf8 -> a) -> CString -> IO a
diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+v2.3.23:
+	* Add Semigroup instance to support GHC 8.4.1 (thanks @gwils)
+	* Build clean up for Android support (thanks @kmicklas)
+
+v2.3.22:
+	* Update sqlite to 3.22.0
+
 v2.3.21
 	* Update sqlite to 3.20.1
 	* Add -DSQLITE_ENABLE_FTS5 to build options
diff --git a/direct-sqlite.cabal b/direct-sqlite.cabal
--- a/direct-sqlite.cabal
+++ b/direct-sqlite.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: direct-sqlite
-version: 2.3.22
+version: 2.3.23
 build-type: Simple
 license: BSD3
 license-file: LICENSE
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 category: Database
 synopsis: Low-level binding to SQLite3.  Includes UTF8 and BLOB support.
 Cabal-version: >= 1.10
-Build-type: Simple
 description:
   This package is not very different from the other SQLite3 bindings out
   there, but it fixes a few deficiencies I was finding.  As compared to
@@ -60,7 +59,7 @@
     cpp-options: -Ddirect_sqlite_systemlib
     extra-libraries: sqlite3
   } else {
-    if !os(windows) {
+    if !os(windows) && !os(android) {
       extra-libraries: pthread
     }
     c-sources: cbits/sqlite3.c
@@ -92,6 +91,7 @@
   include-dirs: .
   build-depends: base >= 4.1 && < 5,
                  bytestring >= 0.9.2.1,
+                 semigroups >= 0.18 && < 0.19,
                  text >= 0.11
   ghc-options: -Wall -fwarn-tabs
   default-language: Haskell2010