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doc: improved building doc for Android
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PR-URL: #44166
Reviewed-By: Feng Yu <F3n67u@outlook.com>
Reviewed-By: Akhil Marsonya <akhil.marsonya27@gmail.com>
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MeowShe authored and juanarbol committed Oct 11, 2022
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* [Option 1: Manual install](#option-1-manual-install)
* [Option 2: Automated install with Boxstarter](#option-2-automated-install-with-boxstarter)
* [Building Node.js](#building-nodejs-2)
* [Android/Android-based devices (e.g. Firefox OS)](#androidandroid-based-devices-eg-firefox-os)
* [Android](#android)
* [`Intl` (ECMA-402) support](#intl-ecma-402-support)
* [Build with full ICU support (all locales supported by ICU)](#build-with-full-icu-support-all-locales-supported-by-icu)
* [Unix/macOS](#unixmacos)
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> Release\node -e "console.log('Hello from Node.js', process.version)"
```

### Android/Android-based devices (e.g. Firefox OS)
### Android

Android is not a supported platform. Patches to improve the Android build are
welcome. 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) before in
[Android NDK](https://developer.android.com/ndk) before in
a folder. Then run:

```console
$ ./android-configure /path/to/your/android-ndk
$ make
$ source ./android-configure /path/to/your/android-ndk target_arch android_sdk_version
$ make -j4
```

The Android SDK version should be at least 24 (Android 7.0) and the target
architecture supports \[arm, arm64/aarch64, x86, x86\_64].

## `Intl` (ECMA-402) support

[Intl](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/HEAD/doc/api/intl.md) support is
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