diff --git a/src/libYARP_OS/src/BottleImpl.cpp b/src/libYARP_OS/src/BottleImpl.cpp
index 24d19af3aae..458fc51e1d1 100644
--- a/src/libYARP_OS/src/BottleImpl.cpp
+++ b/src/libYARP_OS/src/BottleImpl.cpp
@@ -805,10 +805,25 @@ ConstString StoreDouble::toStringFlex() const
 
     // YARP Bug 2526259: Locale settings influence YARP behavior
     // Need to deal with alternate versions of the decimal point.
+#ifndef __ANDROID__
     struct lconv* lc = localeconv();
     size_t offset = str.find(lc->decimal_point);
     if (offset != ConstString::npos) {
         str[offset] = '.';
+#else
+    const char *decimalPoint;
+    #ifdef HAVE_LOCALECONV
+        struct lconv * lc=localeconv();
+        decimalPoint = lc->decimal_point;
+    #else
+        decimalPoint = getenv("LOCALE_DECIMAL_POINT");
+    #endif
+        if (!decimalPoint)
+            decimalPoint = ".";
+    size_t offset = str.find(decimalPoint);
+    if (offset!=String::npos){
+        str[offset]='.';
+#endif
     } else {
         str += ".0";
     }
@@ -837,8 +852,22 @@ void StoreDouble::fromString(const ConstString& src)
     ConstString tmp = src;
     size_t offset = tmp.find(".");
     if (offset != ConstString::npos) {
-        struct lconv* lc = localeconv();
-        tmp[offset] = lc->decimal_point[0];
+    #ifndef __ANDROID__
+       struct lconv* lc = localeconv();
+       tmp[offset] = lc->decimal_point[0];
+    #else
+        const char *decimalPoint;
+        #ifdef HAVE_LOCALECONV
+            struct lconv * lc=localeconv();
+            decimalPoint = lc->decimal_point;
+        #else
+            decimalPoint = getenv("LOCALE_DECIMAL_POINT");
+        #endif
+            if (!decimalPoint)
+                decimalPoint = ".";
+
+               tmp[offset] = decimalPoint[0];
+    #endif
     }
     x = ACE_OS::strtod(tmp.c_str(), NULL);
 }
diff --git a/src/libYARP_OS/src/PortCore.cpp b/src/libYARP_OS/src/PortCore.cpp
index 2da41039617..e6d619b7b7e 100644
--- a/src/libYARP_OS/src/PortCore.cpp
+++ b/src/libYARP_OS/src/PortCore.cpp
@@ -2419,7 +2419,9 @@ bool PortCore::setProcessSchedulingParam(int priority, int policy) {
 #if defined(__linux__)
     // set the sched properties of all threads within the process
     struct sched_param sch_param;
+#ifndef __ANDROID__
     sch_param.__sched_priority = priority;
+#endif
 
     DIR *dir;
     char path[PATH_MAX];
diff --git a/src/libYARP_OS/src/SystemInfo.cpp b/src/libYARP_OS/src/SystemInfo.cpp
index 9cdedf4dd60..5c7daaee61d 100644
--- a/src/libYARP_OS/src/SystemInfo.cpp
+++ b/src/libYARP_OS/src/SystemInfo.cpp
@@ -31,7 +31,9 @@ using namespace yarp::os;
 #include <sys/ioctl.h>
 #include <sys/socket.h>
 #include <linux/if.h>
+#ifndef __ANDROID__
 #include <sys/statvfs.h>
+#endif
 #include <pwd.h>
 
 extern char **environ;
@@ -296,13 +298,14 @@ SystemInfo::StorageInfo SystemInfo::getStorageInfo()
     yarp::os::ConstString strHome = getUserInfo().homeDir; 
     if(!strHome.length())
         strHome = "/home";
-
+    #ifndef __ANDROID__
     struct statvfs vfs;
     if(statvfs(strHome.c_str(), &vfs) == 0)
     {
         storage.totalSpace = (int)(vfs.f_blocks*vfs.f_bsize/(1048576)); // in MB
         storage.freeSpace = (int)(vfs.f_bavail*vfs.f_bsize/(1048576));  // in MB
     }
+    #endif
 
 #endif
     return storage;
@@ -696,8 +699,10 @@ SystemInfo::ProcessInfo SystemInfo::getProcessInfo(int pid) {
 
     // scheduling params
     struct sched_param param;
+    #ifndef __ANDROID__
     if( sched_getparam(pid, &param) == 0 )
         info.schedPriority = param.__sched_priority;
+    #endif
     info.schedPolicy = sched_getscheduler(pid);
 
 #elif defined(WIN32)  
diff --git a/src/libYARP_OS/src/ThreadImpl.cpp b/src/libYARP_OS/src/ThreadImpl.cpp
index ff66d861a5a..f1a1029a7ea 100644
--- a/src/libYARP_OS/src/ThreadImpl.cpp
+++ b/src/libYARP_OS/src/ThreadImpl.cpp
@@ -82,7 +82,11 @@ PLATFORM_THREAD_RETURN theExecutiveBranch (void *args)
 #if defined(__linux__)
         // Use the POSIX syscalls to get
         // the real thread ID (gettid) on Linux machine
+        #ifndef __ANDROID__
         thread->tid = (long) syscall(SYS_gettid);
+        #else
+        thread->tid = 0;
+        #endif
 #endif
 
         // c++11 std::thread, pthread and ace threads on some platforms do not