diff --git a/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/io.c b/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/io.c
--- a/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/io.c
+++ b/Modules/_decimal/libmpdec/io.c
@@ -868,10 +868,17 @@
         }
         spec->type = *cp++;
         spec->type = (spec->type == 'N') ? 'G' : 'g';
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+        spec->dot = ".";
+        spec->sep = ",':
+        spec->grouping = "\3";
+#else
         lc = localeconv();
         spec->dot = lc->decimal_point;
         spec->sep = lc->thousands_sep;
         spec->grouping = lc->grouping;
+#endif
+
         if (mpd_validate_lconv(spec) < 0) {
             return 0; /* GCOV_NOT_REACHED */
         }
diff --git a/Modules/_localemodule.c b/Modules/_localemodule.c
--- a/Modules/_localemodule.c
+++ b/Modules/_localemodule.c
@@ -141,6 +141,11 @@
     if (!result)
         return NULL;
 
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+    /* Don't even try on Android's broken locale.h. */
+    goto failed;
+#else
+
     /* if LC_NUMERIC is different in the C library, use saved value */
     l = localeconv();
 
@@ -195,6 +200,7 @@
     RESULT_INT(p_sign_posn);
     RESULT_INT(n_sign_posn);
     return result;
+#endif // __ANDROID__
 
   failed:
     Py_XDECREF(result);
diff --git a/Python/formatter_unicode.c b/Python/formatter_unicode.c
--- a/Python/formatter_unicode.c
+++ b/Python/formatter_unicode.c
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@
 {
     switch (type) {
     case LT_CURRENT_LOCALE: {
+#ifndef __ANDROID__
         struct lconv *locale_data = localeconv();
         locale_info->decimal_point = PyUnicode_DecodeLocale(
                                          locale_data->decimal_point,
@@ -680,6 +681,7 @@
         }
         locale_info->grouping = locale_data->grouping;
         break;
+#endif // __ANDROID__
     }
     case LT_DEFAULT_LOCALE:
         locale_info->decimal_point = PyUnicode_FromOrdinal('.');
diff --git a/Python/pystrtod.c b/Python/pystrtod.c
--- a/Python/pystrtod.c
+++ b/Python/pystrtod.c
@@ -177,8 +177,12 @@
 
     fail_pos = NULL;
 
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+    decimal_point = "."; 
+#else
     locale_data = localeconv();
     decimal_point = locale_data->decimal_point;
+#endif
     decimal_point_len = strlen(decimal_point);
 
     assert(decimal_point_len != 0);
@@ -378,8 +382,12 @@
 Py_LOCAL_INLINE(void)
 change_decimal_from_locale_to_dot(char* buffer)
 {
+#ifdef __ANDROID__
+    const char *decimal_point = ".";
+#else
     struct lconv *locale_data = localeconv();
     const char *decimal_point = locale_data->decimal_point;
+#endif
 
     if (decimal_point[0] != '.' || decimal_point[1] != 0) {
         size_t decimal_point_len = strlen(decimal_point);