diff --git a/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml b/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
index 3c7f59703e..efb7abbb93 100644
--- a/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
+++ b/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
@@ -63,8 +63,6 @@
         </activity>
     </application>
 
-    <!-- Tell the system this app requires OpenGL ES 3.0. -->
-    <uses-feature android:glEsVersion="0x00030000" android:required="true" />
     <uses-feature android:name="android.software.vr.mode" android:required="true"/>
     <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.vr.high_performance" android:required="true"/>
 
diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index c53eac1ed0..d2e3a3a183 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -457,9 +457,7 @@ task cleanDependencies(type: Delete) {
 task generateAssetsFileList() {
     doLast {
         def assetsPath = "${appDir}/src/main/assets/"
-        //def assetsPath = "/Users/cduarte/dev/workspace-hifi/hifiparallel/build_android_hifiqt59/interface/apk/assets/"
         def addedByAndroidDeployQtName = "--Added-by-androiddeployqt--/"
-        //def addedByAndroidDeployQtName = "--Added-by-androiddeployqt--/"
 
         def addedByAndroidDeployQtPath = assetsPath + addedByAndroidDeployQtName
 
@@ -468,7 +466,6 @@ task generateAssetsFileList() {
             throw new GradleScriptException("Failed to create directory " + addedByAndroidDeployQtPath, null);
         }
         def outputFilename = "/qt_cache_pregenerated_file_list"
-        //def outputFilename = "/qt_cache_pregenerated_file_list2"
         def outputFile = new File(addedByAndroidDeployQtPath + outputFilename);
         Map<String, List<String>> directoryContents = new TreeMap<>();
 
@@ -483,10 +480,6 @@ task generateAssetsFileList() {
                 fileName += "/"
             }
 
-            /*println ("full: [" + file.getAbsolutePath() + "]\n\t"
-                    + "path: [" + pathName + "]\n\t"
-                    + "name: [" + fileName + "]\n\t");*/
-
             if (!directoryContents.containsKey(pathName)) {
                 directoryContents[pathName] = new ArrayList<String>()
             }
@@ -497,16 +490,12 @@ task generateAssetsFileList() {
         DataOutputStream fos = new DataOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(outputFile));
         for (Map.Entry<String, List<String>> e: directoryContents.entrySet()) {
             def entryList = e.getValue()
-            //stream << it.key() << entryList.size();
             fos.writeInt(e.key.length()*2); // 2 bytes per char
             fos.writeChars(e.key);
             fos.writeInt(entryList.size());
-            //println ("dir: " + e.key + " size: " + entryList.size());
             for (String entry: entryList) {
                 fos.writeInt(entry.length()*2);
                 fos.writeChars(entry);
-                //println("\tentry: " + entry);
-                //stream << entry;
             }
         }
         fos.close();
diff --git a/interface/CMakeLists.txt b/interface/CMakeLists.txt
index 23358092ca..08d5778f18 100644
--- a/interface/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/interface/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ function(JOIN VALUES GLUE OUTPUT)
 endfunction()
 
 
-if ANDROID OR (NOT DEV_BUILD)
+if (ANDROID OR NOT DEV_BUILD)
     set(INTERFACE_QML_QRC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/qml.qrc)
     generate_qrc(OUTPUT ${INTERFACE_QML_QRC} PATH ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/resources GLOBS *.qml *.qss *.js *.html *.ttf *.gif *.svg *.png *.jpg)
 endif()      
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ qt5_wrap_ui(QT_UI_HEADERS "${QT_UI_FILES}")
 # add them to the interface source files
 set(INTERFACE_SRCS ${INTERFACE_SRCS} "${QT_UI_HEADERS}" "${QT_RESOURCES}")
 
-if (NOT DEV_BUILD)
+if (ANDROID OR NOT DEV_BUILD)
 list(APPEND INTERFACE_SRCS ${INTERFACE_QML_QRC})
 endif()
 
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src")
 
 if (ANDROID)
   #set(ANDROID_PLATFORM_QT_LIBRARIES Qt5::WebView)
+  find_library(ANDROID_LOG_LIB log)
+  target_link_libraries(${TARGET_NAME} ${ANDROID_LOG_LIB})
 else()
   set(NON_ANDROID_PLATFORM_QT_LIBRARIES Qt5::WebEngine)  
 endif ()
diff --git a/interface/src/Application.cpp b/interface/src/Application.cpp
index e5ad9792f8..65005d0605 100644
--- a/interface/src/Application.cpp
+++ b/interface/src/Application.cpp
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@
 #include "webbrowser/WebBrowserSuggestionsEngine.h"
 #ifdef ANDROID
 #include <QtAndroidExtras/QAndroidJniObject>
+#include <android/log.h>
 #endif
 // On Windows PC, NVidia Optimus laptop, we want to enable NVIDIA GPU
 // FIXME seems to be broken.
@@ -556,7 +557,34 @@ void messageHandler(QtMsgType type, const QMessageLogContext& context, const QSt
     if (!logMessage.isEmpty()) {
 #ifdef Q_OS_WIN
         OutputDebugStringA(logMessage.toLocal8Bit().constData());
-        OutputDebugStringA("\n");
+        OutputDebugStringA("\n");i
+#elif defined Q_OS_ANDROID
+        QString report=message;
+        if (context.file && !QString(context.file).isEmpty()) {
+            report+=" at ";
+            report+=QString(context.file);
+            report+=" : ";
+            report+=QString::number(context.line);
+        }
+        const char*const local=report.toLocal8Bit().constData();
+        switch (type) {
+            case QtDebugMsg:
+                __android_log_write(ANDROID_LOG_DEBUG,"Interface",local);
+                break;
+            case QtInfoMsg:
+                __android_log_write(ANDROID_LOG_INFO,"Interface",local);
+                break;
+            case QtWarningMsg:
+                __android_log_write(ANDROID_LOG_WARN,"Interface",local);
+                break;
+            case QtCriticalMsg:
+                __android_log_write(ANDROID_LOG_ERROR,"Interface",local);
+                break;
+            case QtFatalMsg:
+            default:
+                __android_log_write(ANDROID_LOG_FATAL,"Interface",local);
+                abort();
+        }
 #endif
         qApp->getLogger()->addMessage(qPrintable(logMessage + "\n"));
     }
@@ -845,10 +873,7 @@ Application::Application(int& argc, char** argv, QElapsedTimer& startupTimer, bo
 #endif
 
     _logger = new FileLogger(this);
-#ifndef Q_OS_ANDROID
-    // this prevents using logcat
     qInstallMessageHandler(messageHandler);
-#endif
 
     QFontDatabase::addApplicationFont(PathUtils::resourcesPath() + "styles/Inconsolata.otf");
     _window->setWindowTitle("High Fidelity Interface");
@@ -2344,8 +2369,11 @@ void Application::initializeUi() {
     offscreenUi->setProxyWindow(_window->windowHandle());
     // OffscreenUi is a subclass of OffscreenQmlSurface specifically designed to
     // support the window management and scripting proxies for VR use
+#ifndef Q_OS_ANDROID
     offscreenUi->createDesktop(QString("hifi/Desktop.qml"));
-
+#else
+    offscreenUi->createDesktop(QString("qrc:///qml/hifi/Desktop.qml"));
+#endif
     // FIXME either expose so that dialogs can set this themselves or
     // do better detection in the offscreen UI of what has focus
     offscreenUi->setNavigationFocused(false);