doc: note about Android support
authorRich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>
Mon, 4 Apr 2016 17:48:34 +0000 (10:48 -0700)
committerMyles Borins <mborins@us.ibm.com>
Mon, 11 Apr 2016 17:01:30 +0000 (13:01 -0400)
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/6040
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/6035
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Brian White <mscdex@mscdex.net>
BUILDING.md

index c6e8656..a4aa080 100644 (file)
@@ -87,7 +87,14 @@ To test if Node.js was built correctly:
 $ node -e "console.log('Hello from Node.js ' + process.version)"
 ```
 
-### Android / Android based devices, aka. Firefox OS
+### Android / Android-based devices (e.g., Firefox OS)
+
+Although these instructions for building on Android are provided, please note
+that Android is not an officially supported platform at this time. Patches to
+improve the Android build are accepted. However, there is no testing on Android
+in the current continuous integration environment. The participation of people
+dedicated and determined to improve Android building, testing, and support is
+encouraged.
 
 Be sure you have downloaded and extracted [Android NDK]
 (https://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/index.html)