diff --git a/android/README b/android/README
index 98069fcba6..97d474b0de 100644
--- a/android/README
+++ b/android/README
@@ -3,16 +3,16 @@ application for android.
 
 * Prerequisites
 
-Download and install the Android SDK[1] and NDK[2], or run installToolchain.sh.
-After you extracted the SDK, you need to run <sdk-dir>/tools/android in order to
+Download and install the Android SDK[1] and NDK r10e[2], or run installToolchain.sh.
+After you extracted the SDK, you need to run the SDKManager in order to
 install the actual platform sdk from the available packages tab (SDK Platform
-Android 1.5 or above should work).
+Android 4.4 should work).
 In the virtual devices tab you can also setup a emulator.
 
 
 Then, make sure you have the ANDROID_SDK_PATH and ANDROID_NDK_PATH (pointing to
 the each's root directory) environment variables set up, otherwise configure will fail to find the compiler and
-compiling the java files will fail.
+compiling the java files will fail. The installToolchain.sh script will provide reasonable values.
 
 * Build instructions
 
@@ -32,7 +32,5 @@ compiling the java files will fail.
    "$ANDROID_SDK_PATH/tools/adb install -r rockbox.apk"
 
 
-[1]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html 
-[2]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html
-[3]: http://asantoso.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/how-to-build-android-application-package-apk-from-the-command-line-using-the-sdk-tools-continuously-integrated-using-cruisecontrol/
-[4]: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
+[1]: https://developer.android.com/studio
+[2]: https://github.com/android/ndk/wiki/Unsupported-Downloads
diff --git a/android/installToolchain.sh b/android/installToolchain.sh
index 3cdf27b9cd..dafea0f250 100755
--- a/android/installToolchain.sh
+++ b/android/installToolchain.sh
@@ -6,40 +6,43 @@
 # it stopped
 set -e
 
-SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html"
-NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL="http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html"
+SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL="https://developer.android.com/studio"
+SDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD="commandlinetools"
+NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL="https://github.com/android/ndk/wiki/Unsupported-Downloads"
+NDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD="r10e"
 
 find_url() {
     base_url="$1"
-    os="$2"
-    wget -q -O - $base_url | grep dl.google.com | sed 's/.*"\(http:\/\/.*\)".*/\1/' | grep $os | grep -v bundle | grep -v .exe # Windows hack
+    keyword="$2"
+    os="$3"
+    wget -q -O - $base_url | grep dl.google.com | sed 's/.*"\(https:\/\/dl.google.com\/.*\.zip\)".*/\1/' | grep $os | grep $keyword | grep -v bundle | grep -v .exe
 }
 
 OS=`uname`
 case $OS in
     Linux)
-    SDK_URL=$(find_url $SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL linux)
-    NDK_URL=$(find_url $NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL linux)
-    ANDROID=tools/android
+    SDK_URL=$(find_url $SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL $SDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD linux)
+    NDK_URL=$(find_url $NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL $NDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD linux)
+    ANDROID=cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager
     ;;
     
     Darwin)
-    SDK_URL=$(find_url $SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL mac)
-    NDK_URL=$(find_url $NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL darwin)
-    ANDROID=tools/android
+    SDK_URL=$(find_url $SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL $SDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD mac)
+    NDK_URL=$(find_url $NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL $NDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD darwin)
+    ANDROID=cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager
     ;;
 
     CYGWIN*)
-    SDK_URL=$(find_url $SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL windows)
-    NDK_URL=$(find_url $NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL windows)
-    ANDROID=tools/android.bat
+    SDK_URL=$(find_url $SDK_DOWNLOAD_URL $SDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD windows)
+    NDK_URL=$(find_url $NDK_DOWNLOAD_URL $NDK_DOWNLOAD_KEYWORD windows)
+    ANDROID=cmdline-tools/latest/bin/sdkmanager.exe
     ;;
 esac
 
 prefix="${INSTALL_PREFIX:-$HOME}"
 dldir="${DOWNLOAD_DIR:-/tmp}"
 
-SDK_PATH=$(find $prefix -maxdepth 1 -name "android-sdk-*")
+SDK_PATH=${ANDROID_HOME:-$(find $prefix -maxdepth 1 -name "android-sdk")}
 NDK_PATH=$(find $prefix -maxdepth 1 -name "android-ndk-*")
 
 download_and_extract() {
@@ -52,35 +55,24 @@ download_and_extract() {
     fi
 
     echo " * Extracting $name..."
-    case ${local_file} in
-        *.zip)
-            unzip -qo -d "$prefix" "$local_file"
-            ;;
-        *.tgz|*.tar.gz)
-            (cd $prefix; tar -xzf "$local_file")
-            ;;
-        *.tar.bz2)
-            (cd $prefix; tar -xjf "$local_file")
-            ;;
-        *)
-            echo "Couldn't figure out how to extract $local_file" ! 1>&2
-            ;;
-    esac
+    unzip -qo -d "$prefix" "$local_file"
 }
 
 if [ -z "$SDK_PATH" ]; then
+    mkdir -p "$prefix/android-sdk/cmdline-tools"
     download_and_extract $SDK_URL
+    mv "$prefix/cmdline-tools" "$prefix/android-sdk/cmdline-tools/latest"
     # OS X doesn't know about realname, use basename instead.
-    SDK_PATH=$prefix/$(basename $prefix/android-sdk-*)
+    SDK_PATH=$prefix/$(basename $prefix/android-sdk)
 fi
 if [ -z "$NDK_PATH" ]; then
     download_and_extract $NDK_URL
     NDK_PATH=$prefix/$(basename $prefix/android-ndk-*)
 fi
 
-if [ -z "$(find $SDK_PATH/platforms -type d -name 'android-*')" ]; then
+if [ ! -d "$SDK_PATH/platforms/android-19" ] || [ ! -d "$SDK_PATH/build-tools/19.1.0" ]; then
     echo " * Installing Android platforms..."
-    $SDK_PATH/$ANDROID update sdk --no-ui --filter platform,platform-tool,tool
+    $SDK_PATH/$ANDROID --install "platforms;android-19" "build-tools;19.1.0"
 fi
 
 cat <<EOF
diff --git a/docs/CREDITS b/docs/CREDITS
index eb6aac4502..f141f6659b 100644
--- a/docs/CREDITS
+++ b/docs/CREDITS
@@ -730,6 +730,7 @@ Paul Sauro
 Dmitry Prozorov
 Mustafa YILDIZ
 Lianela Sky
+Nick Feldmann
 
 The libmad team
 The wavpack team
diff --git a/tools/configure b/tools/configure
index 3f29ece438..7adadc9a1e 100755
--- a/tools/configure
+++ b/tools/configure
@@ -794,11 +794,16 @@ androidcc () {
         exit
     fi
     if [ -z "$ANDROID_NDK_PATH" ]; then
-        echo "ERROR: You need the Android NDK installed (r10e or higher) and have the ANDROID_NDK_PATH"
+        echo "ERROR: You need the Android NDK installed (r10e to r17) and have the ANDROID_NDK_PATH"
         echo "environment variable point to the root directory of the Android NDK."
         exit
     fi
     make_toolchain="${ANDROID_NDK_PATH}/build/tools/make-standalone-toolchain.sh"
+    if [ ! -f "$make_toolchain" ]; then
+        echo "ERROR: You need the Android NDK installed (r10e to r17). Please note that"
+        echo "versions newer than r17 are not supported because they do not contain GCC."
+        exit
+    fi
 
     # the prebuilt android NDK only supports x86_64 architecture anyway, so we can take shortcuts
     buildhost=$(uname | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")-x86_64
@@ -815,6 +820,7 @@ androidcc () {
     ANDROID_PLATFORM_VERSION=$1
     GCCOPTS="$GCCOPTS $3"
     gccchoice="4.9"
+    rm -rf "${pwd}/android-toolchain" # old toolchain must be removed before running script
     # arch dependant stuff
     case $ANDROID_ARCH in
         armeabi)