diff --git a/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/Transformer.java b/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/Transformer.java
index 6d1dfd75f8..5107c6a95c 100644
--- a/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/Transformer.java
+++ b/libraries/transformer/src/main/java/androidx/media3/transformer/Transformer.java
@@ -404,16 +404,12 @@ public final class Transformer {
     /**
      * Builds a {@link Transformer} instance.
      *
-     * @throws NullPointerException If the {@link Context} has not been provided.
      * @throws IllegalStateException If both audio and video have been removed (otherwise the output
      *     would not contain any samples).
      * @throws IllegalStateException If the muxer doesn't support the requested audio MIME type.
      * @throws IllegalStateException If the muxer doesn't support the requested video MIME type.
      */
     public Transformer build() {
-      // TODO(huangdarwin): Remove this checkNotNull after deprecated {@link #setContext(Context)}
-      // is removed.
-      checkNotNull(context);
       if (transformationRequest.audioMimeType != null) {
         checkSampleMimeType(transformationRequest.audioMimeType);
       }