diff -r 77154b3fcd20 Lib/subprocess.py
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py	Mon Jul 18 22:08:19 2016 -0700
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py	Tue Jul 19 18:10:16 2016 +0200
@@ -1466,7 +1466,13 @@
                 args = list(args)
 
             if shell:
-                args = ["/bin/sh", "-c"] + args
+                import sysconfig
+                # On Android the default shell is at '/system/bin/sh'.
+                if sysconfig.get_config_var('ANDROID_API_LEVEL'):
+                    unix_shell = '/system/bin/sh'
+                else:
+                    unix_shell = '/bin/sh'
+                args = [unix_shell, "-c"] + args
                 if executable:
                     args[0] = executable