diff --git a/android/build.gradle b/android/build.gradle
index 11fadc97c9..4e1080fff4 100644
--- a/android/build.gradle
+++ b/android/build.gradle
@@ -419,3 +419,8 @@ task obbPush(dependsOn: ['obbGenerate', 'obbPushMain', 'obbPushPatch']) {
     commandLine android.getAdbExe(), 'push', propObbWorldsOutput, "${obbPath}worlds.obb"
   }
 }
+
+task patchNdkR10E(type: Exec, description: 'Patches NDK r10e for bug described here https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=179410') {
+  def cxxabiPath = "${android.getNdkDirectory().getAbsolutePath()}/sources/cxx-stl/gabi++/src/cxxabi.cc"
+  commandLine 'bash', '-c', "patch -p1 ${cxxabiPath} < ../tools/android/cxxabi.cc_patch"
+}
diff --git a/android/jni/Application.mk b/android/jni/Application.mk
index b4b8057648..3cfe2d9e97 100644
--- a/android/jni/Application.mk
+++ b/android/jni/Application.mk
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION := clang
+NDK_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION := clang3.6
 APP_PLATFORM := android-15
 APP_STL := c++_static
 
@@ -28,5 +28,12 @@ else
   APP_CFLAGS += -DRELEASE -D_RELEASE
   ifeq ($(PRODUCTION),1)
     APP_CFLAGS += -DOMIM_PRODUCTION
+    # Temporary workaround for crashes on x86 arch when throwing C++ exceptions, built with NDK r10e version.
+    # Requires patched NDK file "android-ndk-r10e/sources/cxx-stl/gabi++/src/cxxabi.cc" file,
+    # Patch can be found at "../tools/android/cxxabi.cc_patch".
+    # Gradle task patchNdkR10E will patch it for you.
+    # More details here: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=179410.
+    # TODO: Check if this workaround is needed in newer NDK versions.
+    LIBCXX_FORCE_REBUILD := true
   endif
 endif
diff --git a/tools/android/cxxabi.cc_patch b/tools/android/cxxabi.cc_patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79412c529e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/android/cxxabi.cc_patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/Users/yunik/devtools/android-sdk/ndk-bundle/sources/cxx-stl/gabi++/src/cxxabi.cc b/android/../tools/android/cxxabi.cc
+index 3f428d9..9c0e8bc 100644
+--- a/Users/yunik/devtools/android-sdk/ndk-bundle/sources/cxx-stl/gabi++/src/cxxabi.cc
++++ b/android/../tools/android/cxxabi.cc
+@@ -296,7 +296,9 @@ namespace __cxxabiv1 {
+ 
+   extern "C" void *__cxa_allocate_exception(size_t thrown_size) _GABIXX_NOEXCEPT {
+     size_t size = thrown_size + sizeof(__cxa_exception);
+-    __cxa_exception *buffer = static_cast<__cxa_exception*>(malloc(size));
++    // Bugfix for crashes appearing on stack unwinding, taken from https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/182443/
++    //__cxa_exception *buffer = static_cast<__cxa_exception*>(malloc(size));
++    __cxa_exception *buffer = static_cast<__cxa_exception*>(memalign(__alignof__(__cxa_exception), size));
+     if (!buffer) {
+       // Since Android uses memory-overcommit, we enter here only when
+       // the exception object is VERY large. This will propably never happen.
diff --git a/tools/mkspecs/android-clang/qmake.conf b/tools/mkspecs/android-clang/qmake.conf
index 6c498513b6..be8b5ffc5e 100644
--- a/tools/mkspecs/android-clang/qmake.conf
+++ b/tools/mkspecs/android-clang/qmake.conf
@@ -5,18 +5,19 @@
 #########################################################################
 
 ANDROID_TARGET_ABI = $$(NDK_ABI)
-# By default use armv7 architecture with hardware math co-processor.
-isEmpty( ANDROID_TARGET_ABI ): ANDROID_TARGET_ABI = armeabi-v7a-hard
+# By default use armv7 architecture.
+isEmpty( ANDROID_TARGET_ABI ): ANDROID_TARGET_ABI = armeabi-v7a
 
 # Minimum supported platform is Android 4.0.3.
 ANDROID_PLATFORM = android-15
 
-GCC_VERSION = 4.9
+GCC_VERSION = 4.8
+CLANG_VERSION = 3.6
 
 MAKEFILE_GENERATOR = UNIX
-QMAKE_COMPILER     = $$(NDK_ROOT)/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/$$(NDK_HOST)/bin/clang
+QMAKE_COMPILER     = $$(NDK_ROOT)/toolchains/llvm-$$CLANG_VERSION/prebuilt/$$(NDK_HOST)/bin/clang
 QMAKE_CC           = $$QMAKE_COMPILER
-QMAKE_CXX          = $$(NDK_ROOT)/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/$$(NDK_HOST)/bin/clang++
+QMAKE_CXX          = $$(NDK_ROOT)/toolchains/llvm-$$CLANG_VERSION/prebuilt/$$(NDK_HOST)/bin/clang++
 QMAKE_LINK_C       = $$QMAKE_CC
 QMAKE_LINK_C_SHLIB = $$QMAKE_CC
 QMAKE_LINK         = $$QMAKE_CXX