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@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ Configuration is available for cmake, [documented elsewhere](https://cmake.org/d
 
 Mac support is pretty early and while it will compile, it's not usable for debugging yet. Builds happen with cmake the same way as Linux.
 
+### Android
+
+To build the components required to debug an Android target, first gather everything from [Dependencies](#dependencies) below, then run:
+```
+mkdir build-android
+cd build-android
+cmake -DBUILD_ANDROID=On -DANDROID_ABI=armeabi-v7a -DANDROID_NATIVE_API_LEVEL=23 ..
+make
+```
+
 # Code of Conduct
 
 I want to ensure that anyone can contribute to RenderDoc with only the next bug to worry about. For that reason the project has adopted the [contributor covenent](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) as a code of conduct to be enforced for anyone taking part in RenderDoc development. If you have any queries in this regard you can get in touch with me [directly over email](mailto:baldurk@baldurk.org).
@@ -153,6 +163,42 @@ brew install cmake qt5
 brew link qt5 --force
 ```
 
+### Android
+
+To build for Android, you must download components of the Android SDK, the Android NDK, and Java Development Kit.
+
+If you've already got the tools required, simply set the following three environment variables:
+```
+export ANDROID_SDK=<path_to_sdk_root>
+export ANDROID_NDK=<path_to_ndk_root>
+export JAVA_HOME=<path_to_jdk_root>
+```
+Otherwise, below are steps to acquire the tools for Ubuntu.
+
+The Java Development Kit can be installed with:
+```
+sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
+export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64
+```
+
+The Android SDK and NDK can be set up with the following steps.  They are also mirrored in our Travis-CI [setup script](scripts/travis/android_setup.sh) for Android.  We are currently targeting build-tools 26.0.1 and NDK r14b.
+```
+# Set up Android SDK and NDK
+export ANDROID_SDK=<path_to_desired_setup>
+pushd $ANDROID_SDK
+wget http://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-3859397.zip
+unzip sdk-tools-linux-3859397.zip
+cd tools/bin/
+./sdkmanager --sdk_root=$ANDROID_SDK "build-tools;26.0.1" "platforms;android-23"
+# Accept the license
+
+# Set up Android NDK
+pushd $ANDROID_SDK
+wget http://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r14b-linux-x86_64.zip
+unzip android-ndk-r14b-linux-x86_64.zip
+export ANDROID_NDK=$ANDROID_SDK/android-ndk-r14b
+```
+
 # Where to Start
 
 There are always plenty of things to do, if you'd like to chip in! Check out the [Roadmap](https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/wiki/Roadmap) page in the wiki for future tasks to tackle, or have a look at the [issues](https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/issues) for outstanding bugs. I'll try and tag things that seem like small changes that would be a good way for someone to get started with.