diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 39bceab7b0..1e408960c9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
   `0..FD_SETSIZE`.
   (#[1575](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1575))
 
+- Enabled `process_vm_readv` and `process_vm_writev` for Android
+  (#[1557](https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/pull/1557))
+### Changed
+### Fixed
+### Removed
+
 ## [0.23.0] - 2021-09-28
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/src/sys/uio.rs b/src/sys/uio.rs
index d9b3bb16db..4229830050 100644
--- a/src/sys/uio.rs
+++ b/src/sys/uio.rs
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ pub fn pread(fd: RawFd, buf: &mut [u8], offset: off_t) -> Result<usize>{
 /// therefore not represented in Rust by an actual slice as `IoVec` is. It
 /// is used with [`process_vm_readv`](fn.process_vm_readv.html)
 /// and [`process_vm_writev`](fn.process_vm_writev.html).
-#[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
+#[cfg(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"))]
 #[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(all())))]
 #[repr(C)]
 #[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, Hash, PartialEq)]
@@ -125,13 +125,13 @@ feature! {
 /// `CAP_SYS_PTRACE`), or you must be running as the same user as the
 /// target process and the OS must have unprivileged debugging enabled.
 ///
-/// This function is only available on Linux.
+/// This function is only available on Linux and Android(SDK23+).
 ///
 /// [`process_vm_writev`(2)]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/process_vm_writev.2.html
 /// [ptrace]: ../ptrace/index.html
 /// [`IoVec`]: struct.IoVec.html
 /// [`RemoteIoVec`]: struct.RemoteIoVec.html
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(target_env = "uclibc")))]
+#[cfg(all(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"), not(target_env = "uclibc")))]
 pub fn process_vm_writev(
     pid: crate::unistd::Pid,
     local_iov: &[IoVec<&[u8]>],
@@ -160,13 +160,13 @@ pub fn process_vm_writev(
 /// `CAP_SYS_PTRACE`), or you must be running as the same user as the
 /// target process and the OS must have unprivileged debugging enabled.
 ///
-/// This function is only available on Linux.
+/// This function is only available on Linux and Android(SDK23+).
 ///
 /// [`process_vm_readv`(2)]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/process_vm_readv.2.html
 /// [`ptrace`]: ../ptrace/index.html
 /// [`IoVec`]: struct.IoVec.html
 /// [`RemoteIoVec`]: struct.RemoteIoVec.html
-#[cfg(all(target_os = "linux", not(target_env = "uclibc")))]
+#[cfg(all(any(target_os = "linux", target_os = "android"), not(target_env = "uclibc")))]
 pub fn process_vm_readv(
     pid: crate::unistd::Pid,
     local_iov: &[IoVec<&mut [u8]>],