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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Meta-issue: support of the android platform","articleBody":"BPO | [26865](https://bugs.python.org/issue26865)\n--- | :---\nNosy | @ethanfurman, @xdegaye, @ericsnowcurrently, @Fak3, @zware, @moreati, @yan12125, @ethanhs\nDependencies | \u003cli\u003ebpo-16255: subrocess.Popen needs /bin/sh but Android only has /system/bin/sh\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-23968: rename the platform directory from plat-$(MACHDEP) to plat-$(PLATFORM_TRIPLET)\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26849: android does not support versioning in SONAME\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26851: android compilation and link flags\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26853: missing symbols in curses and readline modules on android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26854: missing header on android for the ossaudiodev module\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26855: android: add platform.android_ver()\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26856: android does not have pwd.getpwall()\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26857: gethostbyname_r() is broken on android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26858: setting SO_REUSEPORT fails at API 21\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26862: android: SYS_getdents64 does not need to be defined on android API 21\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26863: android lacks some declarations for the posix module\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26884: android: cross-compilation of extension module links to the wrong python library\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26918: android: test_pipes fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26919: on Android python fails to decode/encode command line arguments\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26920: android: test_sys fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26924: android: test_concurrent_futures fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26925: android: test_multiprocessing_main_handling fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26926: test_io large file test failure on 32 bits Android platforms\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26927: test_mmap does not handle ValueError when no large file support\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26928: _bootlocale imports locale at startup on Android, causing test_site to fail\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26929: android: test_strptime fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26931: android: test_distutils fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26932: RTLD_* macros are not defined on Android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26933: android: test_posixpath fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26934: android: test_faulthandler fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26935: android: test_os fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26936: android: test_socket fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26937: the chown() method of the tarfile.TarFile class fails on Android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26938: android: test_concurrent_futures hangs on armv7\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26939: android: test_functools hangs on armv7\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26940: android: test_importlib hangs on armv7\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26941: android: test_threading hangs on armv7\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26942: android: test_ctypes crashes on armv7 and aarch64\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-26944: test_posix: Android \u0026#x27;id -G\u0026#x27; is entirely wrong or missing the effective gid\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-27027: add the \u0026#x27;is_android\u0026#x27; attribute to test.support\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-27442: expose the Android API level in sysconfig.get_config_vars()\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-27472: add the \u0026#x27;unix_shell\u0026#x27; attribute to test.support\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-27606: Android cross-built for armv5te with clang and \u0026#x27;-mthumb\u0026#x27; crashes with SIGSEGV or SIGILL\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-27627: clang fails to build ctypes on Android armv7\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-27659: Prohibit implicit C function declarations\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28180: Implementation of the PEP 538: coerce C locale to C.utf-8\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28538: _socket module cross-compilation error on android-24\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28562: test_asyncio fails on Android upon calling getaddrinfo()\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28596: on Android _bootlocale on startup relies on too many library modules\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28662: catch also PermissionError in tests when spawning a non existent program\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28664: test_bz2 fails with BrokenPipeError when bunzip2 is missing\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28668: instanciation of multiprocessing.Queue raises ImportError in test_logging\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28683: bind() on a unix socket raises PermissionError on Android for a non-root user\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28684: [asyncio] bind() on a unix socket raises PermissionError on Android for a non-root user\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28740: Add sys.getandroidapilevel()\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28746: cannot set_inheritable() for a file descriptor on Android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28759: access to mkfifo, mknod and hard links is controled by SELinux MAC on Android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28762: lockf() is available now on Android API level 24, but the F_LOCK macro is not defined\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28764: test_mailbox fails when run as a non-root user on Android API 24\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28996: wcscoll is broken on Android and test_locale fails\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-28997: test_readline.test_nonascii fails on Android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-29040: building Android with android-ndk-r14\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-29176: /tmp does not exist on Android and is used by curses.window.putwin()\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-29177: skip tests of test_logging when bind() raises PermissionError (non-root user on Android)\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-29180: skip tests that raise PermissionError in test_os (non-root user on Android)\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-29181: skip tests that raise PermissionError in test_tarfile (non-root user on Android)\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-29184: skip tests of test_socketserver when bind() raises PermissionError (non-root user on Android)\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-29185: test_distutils fails on Android API level 24\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32031: Do not use the canonical path in pydoc test_mixed_case_module_names_are_lower_cased\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32059: detect_modules() in setup.py must also search the sysroot paths\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32126: [asyncio] test failure when the platform lacks a functional  sem_open()\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32138: android: test_faulthandler fails also on API 24\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32139: android: locale is modified by test_strftime\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32199: uuid.getnode() should return the MAC address on Android\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32202: [ctypes] all long double tests fail on android-24-x86_64\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32203: [ctypes] test_struct_by_value fails on android-24-arm64\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32205: test.pythoninfo does not print the cross-built sysconfig data\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32210: Add platform.android_ver()  to test.pythoninfo for Android platforms\u003c/li\u003e\u003cli\u003ebpo-32246: test_regrtest alters the execution environment on Android\u003c/li\u003e\n\n\u003csup\u003e*Note: these values reflect the state of the issue at the time it was migrated and might not reflect the current state.*\u003c/sup\u003e\n\n\u003cdetails\u003e\u003csummary\u003eShow more details\u003c/summary\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\nGitHub fields:\n```python\nassignee = None\nclosed_at = None\ncreated_at = \u003cDate 2016-04-26.15:36:51.967\u003e\nlabels = 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['Python 3.7']\n```\n\n\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/details\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n### Linked PRs\n* gh-115576\n* gh-115917\n* gh-115918\n* gh-115923\n* gh-115955\n* gh-116215\n* gh-116379\n* gh-116423\n* gh-116426\n* gh-116617\n* gh-116618\n\u003c!-- /gh-linked-prs --\u003e\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/xdegaye","@type":"Person","name":"xdegaye"},"datePublished":"2016-04-26T15:36:52.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":46},"url":"https://github.com/71052/cpython/issues/71052"}