diff --git a/Android/android.py b/Android/android.py
index 317875ef336e0e..11dda73a7b2efe 100755
--- a/Android/android.py
+++ b/Android/android.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 TESTBED_DIR = ANDROID_DIR / "testbed"
 CROSS_BUILD_DIR = PYTHON_DIR / "cross-build"
 
-HOSTS = ["aarch64-linux-android", "x86_64-linux-android"]
+HOSTS = ["aarch64-linux-android", "x86_64-linux-android", "arm-linux-androideabi", "i686-linux-android"]
 APP_ID = "org.python.testbed"
 DECODE_ARGS = ("UTF-8", "backslashreplace")
 
diff --git a/Android/testbed/app/build.gradle.kts b/Android/testbed/app/build.gradle.kts
index 53cdc591fa35fd..465f6630bdc061 100644
--- a/Android/testbed/app/build.gradle.kts
+++ b/Android/testbed/app/build.gradle.kts
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ val inSourceTree = (
 val KNOWN_ABIS = mapOf(
     "aarch64-linux-android" to "arm64-v8a",
     "x86_64-linux-android" to "x86_64",
+    "arm-linux-androideabi" to "armeabi-v7a",
+    "i686-linux-android" to "x86",
 )
 
 // Discover prefixes.
diff --git a/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py b/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py
index 1418293dcbac0b..77ed0fc0981899 100644
--- a/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/sysconfig/__init__.py
@@ -697,12 +697,16 @@ def get_platform():
         # When Python is running on 32-bit ARM Android on a 64-bit ARM kernel,
         # 'os.uname().machine' is 'armv8l'. Such devices run the same userspace
         # code as 'armv7l' devices.
+        # During the build process of the Android testbed when targeting 32-bit ARM,
+        # '_PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM' is 'arm-linux-androideabi', so 'machine' becomes
+        # 'arm'.
         machine = {
             "x86_64": "x86_64",
             "i686": "x86",
             "aarch64": "arm64_v8a",
             "armv7l": "armeabi_v7a",
             "armv8l": "armeabi_v7a",
+            "arm": "armeabi_v7a",
         }[machine]
     elif osname == "linux":
         # At least on Linux/Intel, 'machine' is the processor --
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
index 6cd568eb3d0412..5027323801b259 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_sysconfig.py
@@ -376,6 +376,7 @@ def test_get_platform(self):
             'aarch64': 'arm64_v8a',
             'armv7l': 'armeabi_v7a',
             'armv8l': 'armeabi_v7a',
+            'arm': 'armeabi_v7a',
         }.items():
             with self.subTest(machine):
                 self._set_uname(('Linux', 'localhost', '3.18.91+',
@@ -585,6 +586,7 @@ def test_android_ext_suffix(self):
             "aarch64": "aarch64-linux-android",
             "armv7l": "arm-linux-androideabi",
             "armv8l": "arm-linux-androideabi",
+            "arm": "arm-linux-androideabi",
         }[machine]
         self.assertEndsWith(suffix, f"-{expected_triplet}.so")
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2026-03-28-02-48-51.gh-issue-146541.k-zlM6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2026-03-28-02-48-51.gh-issue-146541.k-zlM6.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..35644b32dfe692
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2026-03-28-02-48-51.gh-issue-146541.k-zlM6.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+This allows building the Android testbed for 32-bit targets, adding the target triplets to match them, arm-linux-androideabi and i686-linux-android. This also adds the arm key to the dictionary used to convert the machine variable to an Android ABI in sysconfig.get_platform(), because when the Android testbed is being cross-compiled, it stores the contents of the first substring of _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM before the first - symbol in the machine variable, which the dictionary did not previously handle.