diff --git a/analytics/src/main/java/com/segment/analytics/Cartographer.java b/analytics/src/main/java/com/segment/analytics/Cartographer.java
index 1c5b6206f..77c93d6f7 100644
--- a/analytics/src/main/java/com/segment/analytics/Cartographer.java
+++ b/analytics/src/main/java/com/segment/analytics/Cartographer.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.io.StringWriter;
 import java.io.Writer;
+import java.lang.reflect.Array;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
@@ -190,11 +191,15 @@ private static void listToWriter(List<?> list, JsonWriter writer) throws IOExcep
     writer.endArray();
   }
 
-  /** Print the json representation of an array to the given writer. */
-  private static void arrayToWriter(Object[] array, JsonWriter writer) throws IOException {
+  /**
+   * Print the json representation of an array to the given writer. Primitive arrays cannot be cast
+   * to Object[], to this method accepts the raw object and uses {@link Array#getLength(Object)} and
+   * {@link Array#get(Object, int)} to read the array.
+   */
+  private static void arrayToWriter(Object array, JsonWriter writer) throws IOException {
     writer.beginArray();
-    for (Object value : array) {
-      writeValue(value, writer);
+    for (int i = 0, size = Array.getLength(array); i < size; i++) {
+      writeValue(Array.get(array, i), writer);
     }
     writer.endArray();
   }
@@ -216,7 +221,7 @@ private static void writeValue(Object value, JsonWriter writer) throws IOExcepti
     } else if (value instanceof Map) {
       mapToWriter((Map) value, writer);
     } else if (value.getClass().isArray()) {
-      arrayToWriter((Object[]) value, writer);
+      arrayToWriter(value, writer);
     } else {
       writer.value(String.valueOf(value));
     }
diff --git a/analytics/src/test/java/com/segment/analytics/CartographerTest.java b/analytics/src/test/java/com/segment/analytics/CartographerTest.java
index b05c93fce..4e0765b49 100644
--- a/analytics/src/test/java/com/segment/analytics/CartographerTest.java
+++ b/analytics/src/test/java/com/segment/analytics/CartographerTest.java
@@ -245,6 +245,17 @@ public void encodesArraysWithArrays() throws IOException {
                 + "}");
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void encodesPrimitiveArrays() throws IOException {
+    // Exercise a bug where primitive arrays would throw an IOException.
+    // https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-android/issues/507
+    Map<String, Object> map =
+        ImmutableMap.<String, Object>builder().put("a", new int[] {1, 2}).build();
+
+    assertThat(cartographer.toJson(map))
+        .isEqualTo("{\n" + "  \"a\": [\n" + "    1,\n" + "    2\n" + "  ]\n" + "}");
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void decodesArraysWithArraysAsLists() throws IOException {
     String json =