diff --git a/extension/android/executorch_android/src/androidTest/java/org/pytorch/executorch/ModuleE2ETest.java b/extension/android/executorch_android/src/androidTest/java/org/pytorch/executorch/ModuleE2ETest.java
index 3a033851be9..444a5166d95 100644
--- a/extension/android/executorch_android/src/androidTest/java/org/pytorch/executorch/ModuleE2ETest.java
+++ b/extension/android/executorch_android/src/androidTest/java/org/pytorch/executorch/ModuleE2ETest.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 
 package org.pytorch.executorch;
 
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
@@ -89,6 +90,18 @@ public void testClassification(String filePath) throws IOException, URISyntaxExc
         assertEquals(bananaClass, argmax(scores));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testXnnpackBackendRequired() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+        File pteFile = new File(getTestFilePath("/mv3_xnnpack_fp32.pte"));
+        InputStream inputStream = getClass().getResourceAsStream("/mv3_xnnpack_fp32.pte");
+        FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(inputStream, pteFile);
+        inputStream.close();
+
+        Module module = Module.load(getTestFilePath("/mv3_xnnpack_fp32.pte"));
+        String[] expectedBackends = new String[] {"XnnpackBackend"};
+        assertArrayEquals(expectedBackends, module.getUsedBackends("forward"));
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testMv2Fp32() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
         testClassification("/mv2_xnnpack_fp32.pte");
diff --git a/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/Module.java b/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/Module.java
index d4f1e99a3c7..2fd488dd1f1 100644
--- a/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/Module.java
+++ b/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/Module.java
@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ public int loadMethod(String methodName) {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns the names of the methods in a certain method.
+   *
+   * @param methodName method name to query
+   * @return an array of backend name
+   */
+  public String[] getUsedBackends(String methodName) {
+    return mNativePeer.getUsedBackends(methodName);
+  }
+
   /** Retrieve the in-memory log buffer, containing the most recent ExecuTorch log entries. */
   public String[] readLogBuffer() {
     return mNativePeer.readLogBuffer();
diff --git a/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/NativePeer.java b/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/NativePeer.java
index a5487a4702e..5700176261b 100644
--- a/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/NativePeer.java
+++ b/extension/android/executorch_android/src/main/java/org/pytorch/executorch/NativePeer.java
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@ public void resetNative() {
   @DoNotStrip
   public native int loadMethod(String methodName);
 
+  /** Return the list of backends used by a method */
+  @DoNotStrip
+  public native String[] getUsedBackends(String methodName);
+
   /** Retrieve the in-memory log buffer, containing the most recent ExecuTorch log entries. */
   @DoNotStrip
   public native String[] readLogBuffer();
diff --git a/extension/android/jni/jni_layer.cpp b/extension/android/jni/jni_layer.cpp
index f3c62e1d70f..a78f3801c64 100644
--- a/extension/android/jni/jni_layer.cpp
+++ b/extension/android/jni/jni_layer.cpp
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <string>
 #include <unordered_map>
+#include <unordered_set>
 #include <vector>
 
 #include "jni_layer_constants.h"
@@ -395,6 +396,26 @@ class ExecuTorchJni : public facebook::jni::HybridClass<ExecuTorchJni> {
 #endif
   }
 
+  facebook::jni::local_ref<facebook::jni::JArrayClass<jstring>> getUsedBackends(
+      facebook::jni::alias_ref<jstring> methodName) {
+    auto methodMeta = module_->method_meta(methodName->toStdString()).get();
+    std::unordered_set<std::string> backends;
+    for (auto i = 0; i < methodMeta.num_backends(); i++) {
+      backends.insert(methodMeta.get_backend_name(i).get());
+    }
+
+    facebook::jni::local_ref<facebook::jni::JArrayClass<jstring>> ret =
+        facebook::jni::JArrayClass<jstring>::newArray(backends.size());
+    int i = 0;
+    for (auto s : backends) {
+      facebook::jni::local_ref<facebook::jni::JString> backend_name =
+          facebook::jni::make_jstring(s.c_str());
+      (*ret)[i] = backend_name;
+      i++;
+    }
+    return ret;
+  }
+
   static void registerNatives() {
     registerHybrid({
         makeNativeMethod("initHybrid", ExecuTorchJni::initHybrid),
@@ -402,6 +423,7 @@ class ExecuTorchJni : public facebook::jni::HybridClass<ExecuTorchJni> {
         makeNativeMethod("execute", ExecuTorchJni::execute),
         makeNativeMethod("loadMethod", ExecuTorchJni::load_method),
         makeNativeMethod("readLogBuffer", ExecuTorchJni::readLogBuffer),
+        makeNativeMethod("getUsedBackends", ExecuTorchJni::getUsedBackends),
     });
   }
 };