diff --git a/pkg/front_end/lib/src/fasta/incremental_compiler.dart b/pkg/front_end/lib/src/fasta/incremental_compiler.dart
index 2aabaff1867..5e0c376779a 100644
--- a/pkg/front_end/lib/src/fasta/incremental_compiler.dart
+++ b/pkg/front_end/lib/src/fasta/incremental_compiler.dart
@@ -1731,6 +1731,16 @@ class IncrementalCompiler implements IncrementalKernelGenerator {
         }
       }
 
+      // Setup scope first in two-step process:
+      // 1) Create a new SourceLibraryBuilder, add imports and setup (import)
+      //    scope.
+      // 2) Create a new SourceLibraryBuilder, using a nested scope of the scope
+      //    we just created as the scope. The import scopes have been setup via
+      //    the parent chain.
+      // This is done to create the correct "layering" (i.e. definitions from
+      // the "self" library first, then imports while not having dill builders
+      // directly in the scope of a source builder (which can crash things in
+      // some circumstances).
       SourceLibraryBuilder debugLibrary = new SourceLibraryBuilder(
         importUri: libraryUri,
         fileUri: debugExprUri,
@@ -1784,6 +1794,16 @@ class IncrementalCompiler implements IncrementalKernelGenerator {
         debugLibrary.addImportsToScope();
         _ticker.logMs("Added imports");
       }
+      debugLibrary = new SourceLibraryBuilder(
+        importUri: libraryUri,
+        fileUri: debugExprUri,
+        packageLanguageVersion:
+            new ImplicitLanguageVersion(libraryBuilder.library.languageVersion),
+        loader: lastGoodKernelTarget.loader,
+        scope: debugLibrary.scope.createNestedScope("expression"),
+        nameOrigin: libraryBuilder,
+        isUnsupported: libraryBuilder.isUnsupported,
+      );
 
       HybridFileSystem hfs =
           lastGoodKernelTarget.fileSystem as HybridFileSystem;
diff --git a/pkg/front_end/test/spell_checking_list_code.txt b/pkg/front_end/test/spell_checking_list_code.txt
index b338dd608f2..2fe783e09ad 100644
--- a/pkg/front_end/test/spell_checking_list_code.txt
+++ b/pkg/front_end/test/spell_checking_list_code.txt
@@ -671,6 +671,7 @@ launched
 launcher
 layer
 layered
+layering
 layers
 layout
 lc
diff --git a/pkg/front_end/testcases/expression.status b/pkg/front_end/testcases/expression.status
index 76b0665066c..e9ab4a8a2bb 100644
--- a/pkg/front_end/testcases/expression.status
+++ b/pkg/front_end/testcases/expression.status
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2018, the Dart project authors.  Please see the AUTHORS file
 # for details. All rights reserved. Use of this source code is governed by a
 # BSD-style license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
-
-platform_isandroid.expression: Crash
diff --git a/pkg/front_end/testcases/expression/platform_isandroid.expression.yaml.expect b/pkg/front_end/testcases/expression/platform_isandroid.expression.yaml.expect
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..872d5f9024b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/front_end/testcases/expression/platform_isandroid.expression.yaml.expect
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Errors: {
+}
+static method /*isLegacy, from org-dartlang-debug:synthetic_debug_expression */ debugExpr() → dynamic
+  return dart.io::Platform::isAndroid;