diff --git a/mobile/android/app/geckoview-prefs.js b/mobile/android/app/geckoview-prefs.js
index f11a31193ddb..a1e931f59f4e 100644
--- a/mobile/android/app/geckoview-prefs.js
+++ b/mobile/android/app/geckoview-prefs.js
@@ -9,4 +9,7 @@
 pref("privacy.trackingprotection.pbmode.enabled", false);
 pref("dom.ipc.processCount", 1);
 pref("dom.ipc.keepProcessesAlive.web", 1);
-pref("dom.ipc.processPrelaunch.enabled", false);
\ No newline at end of file
+pref("dom.ipc.processPrelaunch.enabled", false);
+
+// Tell Telemetry that we're in GeckoView mode.
+pref("toolkit.telemetry.isGeckoViewMode", true);
diff --git a/mobile/android/components/geckoview/GeckoViewStartup.js b/mobile/android/components/geckoview/GeckoViewStartup.js
index e934af523f39..45f4d63b0b80 100644
--- a/mobile/android/components/geckoview/GeckoViewStartup.js
+++ b/mobile/android/components/geckoview/GeckoViewStartup.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm");
 
 XPCOMUtils.defineLazyModuleGetters(this, {
+  GeckoViewTelemetryController: "resource://gre/modules/GeckoViewTelemetryController.jsm",
   GeckoViewUtils: "resource://gre/modules/GeckoViewUtils.jsm",
   Services: "resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm",
 });
@@ -69,6 +70,11 @@ GeckoViewStartup.prototype = {
             "ContentPrefs:RemoveObserverForName",
           ],
         });
+
+        // This initializes Telemetry for GeckoView only in the parent process.
+        // The Telemetry initialization for the content process is performed in
+        // ContentProcessSingleton.js for consistency with Desktop Telemetry.
+        GeckoViewTelemetryController.setup();
         break;
       }
     }
diff --git a/toolkit/components/processsingleton/ContentProcessSingleton.js b/toolkit/components/processsingleton/ContentProcessSingleton.js
index fe5aeeab7582..73a095cdc781 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/processsingleton/ContentProcessSingleton.js
+++ b/toolkit/components/processsingleton/ContentProcessSingleton.js
@@ -7,8 +7,10 @@
 ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm");
 ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm");
 
-ChromeUtils.defineModuleGetter(this, "TelemetryController",
-                               "resource://gre/modules/TelemetryController.jsm");
+XPCOMUtils.defineLazyModuleGetters(this, {
+  GeckoViewTelemetryController: "resource://gre/modules/GeckoViewTelemetryController.jsm",
+  TelemetryController: "resource://gre/modules/TelemetryController.jsm",
+});
 
 function ContentProcessSingleton() {}
 ContentProcessSingleton.prototype = {
@@ -20,6 +22,13 @@ ContentProcessSingleton.prototype = {
     switch (topic) {
     case "app-startup": {
       Services.obs.addObserver(this, "xpcom-shutdown");
+      // Initialize Telemetry in the content process: use a different
+      // controller depending on the platform.
+      if (Services.prefs.getBoolPref("toolkit.telemetry.isGeckoViewMode", false)) {
+        GeckoViewTelemetryController.setup();
+        return;
+      }
+      // Initialize Firefox Desktop Telemetry.
       TelemetryController.observe(null, topic, null);
       break;
     }
diff --git a/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryController.jsm b/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryController.jsm
index a8ab255ccac5..370c1bfd2374 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryController.jsm
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryController.jsm
@@ -575,22 +575,7 @@ var Impl = {
     // Unified Telemetry makes it opt-out. If extended Telemetry is enabled, base recording
     // is always on as well.
     if (IS_UNIFIED_TELEMETRY) {
-      // Enable extended Telemetry on pre-release channels and disable it
-      // on Release/ESR.
-      let prereleaseChannels = ["nightly", "aurora", "beta"];
-      if (!AppConstants.MOZILLA_OFFICIAL) {
-        // Turn extended telemetry for local developer builds.
-        prereleaseChannels.push("default");
-      }
-      const isPrereleaseChannel =
-        prereleaseChannels.includes(AppConstants.MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL);
-      const isReleaseCandidateOnBeta =
-        AppConstants.MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL === "release" &&
-        Services.prefs.getCharPref("app.update.channel", null) === "beta";
-      Telemetry.canRecordBase = true;
-      Telemetry.canRecordExtended = isPrereleaseChannel ||
-        isReleaseCandidateOnBeta ||
-        Services.prefs.getBoolPref(TelemetryUtils.Preferences.OverridePreRelease, false);
+      TelemetryUtils.setTelemetryRecordingFlags();
     } else {
       // We're not on unified Telemetry, stick to the old behaviour for
       // supporting Fennec.
diff --git a/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryUtils.jsm b/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryUtils.jsm
index 85cc501a816d..64e9fdc4dcae 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryUtils.jsm
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryUtils.jsm
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ var EXPORTED_SYMBOLS = [
 ];
 
 ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm", this);
+ChromeUtils.defineModuleGetter(this, "AppConstants",
+                               "resource://gre/modules/AppConstants.jsm");
 
 const MILLISECONDS_PER_DAY = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
 
@@ -201,5 +203,27 @@ var TelemetryUtils = {
     } catch (ex) {
       return Date.now();
     }
-  }
+  },
+
+  /**
+   * Set the Telemetry core recording flag for Unified Telemetry.
+   */
+  setTelemetryRecordingFlags() {
+    // Enable extended Telemetry on pre-release channels and disable it
+    // on Release/ESR.
+    let prereleaseChannels = ["nightly", "aurora", "beta"];
+    if (!AppConstants.MOZILLA_OFFICIAL) {
+      // Turn extended telemetry for local developer builds.
+      prereleaseChannels.push("default");
+    }
+    const isPrereleaseChannel =
+      prereleaseChannels.includes(AppConstants.MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL);
+    const isReleaseCandidateOnBeta =
+      AppConstants.MOZ_UPDATE_CHANNEL === "release" &&
+      Services.prefs.getCharPref("app.update.channel", null) === "beta";
+    Services.telemetry.canRecordBase = true;
+    Services.telemetry.canRecordExtended = isPrereleaseChannel ||
+      isReleaseCandidateOnBeta ||
+      Services.prefs.getBoolPref(this.Preferences.OverridePreRelease, false);
+  },
 };
diff --git a/toolkit/components/telemetry/geckoview/GeckoViewTelemetryController.jsm b/toolkit/components/telemetry/geckoview/GeckoViewTelemetryController.jsm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..859b62d4ffe4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/geckoview/GeckoViewTelemetryController.jsm
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+"use strict";
+
+ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm");
+ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/GeckoViewUtils.jsm");
+
+XPCOMUtils.defineLazyModuleGetters(this, {
+  Services: "resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm",
+  TelemetryUtils: "resource://gre/modules/TelemetryUtils.jsm",
+});
+
+GeckoViewUtils.initLogging("GeckoView.TelemetryController", this);
+
+var EXPORTED_SYMBOLS = ["GeckoViewTelemetryController"];
+
+let GeckoViewTelemetryController = {
+  /**
+   * Setup the Telemetry recording flags. This must be called
+   * in all the processes that need to collect Telemetry.
+   */
+  setup() {
+    debug `setup`;
+
+    TelemetryUtils.setTelemetryRecordingFlags();
+
+    debug `setup - canRecordPrereleaseData ${Services.telemetry.canRecordPrereleaseData
+          }, canRecordReleaseData ${Services.telemetry.canRecordReleaseData}`;
+  },
+};
diff --git a/toolkit/components/telemetry/moz.build b/toolkit/components/telemetry/moz.build
index 27b12ec88e69..17660b77a40a 100644
--- a/toolkit/components/telemetry/moz.build
+++ b/toolkit/components/telemetry/moz.build
@@ -193,5 +193,14 @@ processes_data = GENERATED_FILES['TelemetryProcessData.h']
 processes_data.script = 'gen_process_data.py'
 processes_data.inputs = processes_files
 
+# Add support for GeckoView: please note that building GeckoView
+# implies having an Android build. The packaging step decides
+# which files to include. As a consequence, we can simply only
+# include the GeckoView files on all Android builds.
+if CONFIG['MOZ_WIDGET_TOOLKIT'] == 'android':
+    EXTRA_JS_MODULES += [
+        'geckoview/GeckoViewTelemetryController.jsm',
+    ]
+
 with Files('**'):
     BUG_COMPONENT = ('Toolkit', 'Telemetry')