diff --git a/text/text/src/androidTest/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/CharSequenceCharacterIteratorTest.kt b/text/text/src/androidTest/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/CharSequenceCharacterIteratorTest.kt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..52d4ab774bb16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/text/text/src/androidTest/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/CharSequenceCharacterIteratorTest.kt
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package androidx.compose.ui.text.android
+
+import androidx.test.ext.junit.runners.AndroidJUnit4
+import androidx.test.filters.SmallTest
+import com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat
+import org.junit.Test
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith
+
+@SmallTest
+@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4::class)
+class CharSequenceCharacterIteratorTest {
+    @Test
+    fun canClone() {
+        val subject = CharSequenceCharacterIterator("", 0, 0)
+        val cloned = subject.clone()
+        assertThat(subject).isNotSameInstanceAs(cloned)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/text/text/src/main/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/CharSequenceCharacterIterator.kt b/text/text/src/main/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/CharSequenceCharacterIterator.kt
index a46277c308ad6..d2bbc36273d2b 100644
--- a/text/text/src/main/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/CharSequenceCharacterIterator.kt
+++ b/text/text/src/main/java/androidx/compose/ui/text/android/CharSequenceCharacterIterator.kt
@@ -29,11 +29,12 @@ import java.text.CharacterIterator
  * @param start The index of the beginning of the range.
  * @param end The index of the end of the range.
  */
+@Suppress("PLATFORM_CLASS_MAPPED_TO_KOTLIN")
 internal class CharSequenceCharacterIterator(
     private val charSequence: CharSequence,
     private val start: Int,
     private val end: Int
-) : CharacterIterator {
+) : Object() /* see b/204328129 */, CharacterIterator {
     private var index: Int = start
 
     /**
@@ -173,7 +174,6 @@ internal class CharSequenceCharacterIterator(
      */
     override fun clone(): Any {
         return try {
-            @Suppress("ABSTRACT_SUPER_CALL")
             super.clone()
         } catch (e: CloneNotSupportedException) {
             throw InternalError()