Android, being the most widespread mobile operating systems is in- creasingly becoming a target for malware. Malicious apps designed to turn mobile devices into bots that may form part of a larger botnet have become quite common, thus posing a serious threat. This calls -for more effective methods to detect botnets on the Android plat- form. Hence, in this paper, we present a deep learning approach for Android botnet detection based on Support vector machine (SVM).