diff --git a/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/FlutterJNI.java b/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/FlutterJNI.java
index 9a18c4ba57b40..e24953bd8ee1b 100644
--- a/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/FlutterJNI.java
+++ b/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/FlutterJNI.java
@@ -144,20 +144,7 @@ public void loadLibrary() {
       Log.w(TAG, "FlutterJNI.loadLibrary called more than once");
     }
 
-    try {
-      System.loadLibrary("flutter");
-    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
-      // Sniff if this because libflutter.so couldn't be found.
-      if (e.toString().contains("couldn't find \"libflutter.so\"")) {
-        throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
-            "Could not load libflutter.so this is likely because the application"
-                + " is running on an architecture that Flutter Android does not support (e.g. x86)"
-                + " see https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#what-are-the-supported-target-architectures"
-                + " for more detail.",
-            e);
-      }
-      throw e;
-    }
+    System.loadLibrary("flutter");
     FlutterJNI.loadLibraryCalled = true;
   }
 
diff --git a/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/loader/FlutterLoader.java b/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/loader/FlutterLoader.java
index a4e1337b8f458..55ae4f20f7874 100644
--- a/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/loader/FlutterLoader.java
+++ b/shell/platform/android/io/flutter/embedding/engine/loader/FlutterLoader.java
@@ -182,7 +182,37 @@ public InitResult call() {
               try (TraceSection e = TraceSection.scoped("FlutterLoader initTask")) {
                 ResourceExtractor resourceExtractor = initResources(appContext);
 
-                flutterJNI.loadLibrary();
+                try {
+                  flutterJNI.loadLibrary();
+                } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError unsatisfiedLinkError) {
+                  String couldntFindVersion = "couldn't find \"libflutter.so\"";
+                  String notFoundVersion = "dlopen failed: library \"libflutter.so\" not found";
+
+                  if (unsatisfiedLinkError.toString().contains(couldntFindVersion)
+                      || unsatisfiedLinkError.toString().contains(notFoundVersion)) {
+                    // To gather more information for
+                    // https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/144291,
+                    // log the contents of the native libraries directory as well as the
+                    // cpu architecture.
+
+                    String cpuArch = System.getProperty("os.arch");
+                    String[] nativeLibs = new File(flutterApplicationInfo.nativeLibraryDir).list();
+
+                    throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+                        "Could not load libflutter.so this is possibly because the application"
+                            + " is running on an architecture that Flutter Android does not support (e.g. x86)"
+                            + " see https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#what-are-the-supported-target-architectures"
+                            + " for more detail.\n"
+                            + "App is using cpu architecture: "
+                            + cpuArch
+                            + ", and the native libraries directory contains the following files: "
+                            + Arrays.toString(nativeLibs),
+                        unsatisfiedLinkError);
+                  }
+
+                  throw unsatisfiedLinkError;
+                }
+
                 flutterJNI.updateRefreshRate();
 
                 // Prefetch the default font manager as soon as possible on a background thread.