diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index 6351083101..de5959726b 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -554,6 +554,11 @@ akka {
       # Decreasing the value may improve fairness while increasing may improve
       # throughput.
       file-io-transferTo-limit = 512 KiB
+
+      # The number of times to retry the `finishConnect` call after being notified about
+      # OP_CONNECT. Retries are needed if the OP_CONNECT notification doesn't imply that
+      # `finishConnect` will succeed, which is the case on Android.
+      finish-connect-retries = 5
     }
 
     udp {
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/Tcp.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/Tcp.scala
index f97c4a2f43..c2b8a311d3 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/Tcp.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/Tcp.scala
@@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ class TcpExt(system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends IO.Extension {
     }
 
     val MaxChannelsPerSelector: Int = if (MaxChannels == -1) -1 else math.max(MaxChannels / NrOfSelectors, 1)
+    val FinishConnectRetries: Int = getInt("finish-connect-retries") requiring (_ > 0,
+      "finish-connect-retries must be > 0")
 
     private[this] def getIntBytes(path: String): Int = {
       val size = getBytes(path)
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/TcpOutgoingConnection.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/TcpOutgoingConnection.scala
index 9c2daa29e4..6ac141b3cc 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/TcpOutgoingConnection.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/io/TcpOutgoingConnection.scala
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import java.io.IOException
 import java.nio.channels.{ SelectionKey, SocketChannel }
 import java.net.ConnectException
 import scala.collection.immutable
-import scala.concurrent.duration.Duration
+import scala.concurrent.duration._
 import akka.actor.{ ReceiveTimeout, ActorRef }
 import akka.io.Inet.SocketOption
 import akka.io.TcpConnection.CloseInformation
@@ -55,19 +55,31 @@ private[io] class TcpOutgoingConnection(_tcp: TcpExt,
         if (channel.connect(remoteAddress))
           completeConnect(registration, commander, options)
         else
-          context.become(connecting(registration, commander, options))
+          context.become(connecting(registration, commander, options, tcp.Settings.FinishConnectRetries))
       }
   }
 
   def connecting(registration: ChannelRegistration, commander: ActorRef,
-                 options: immutable.Traversable[SocketOption]): Receive = {
+                 options: immutable.Traversable[SocketOption], remainingFinishConnectRetries: Int): Receive = {
     {
       case ChannelConnectable ⇒
-        if (timeout.isDefined) context.setReceiveTimeout(Duration.Undefined) // Clear the timeout
         reportConnectFailure {
-          channel.finishConnect() || (throw new ConnectException(s"Connection to [$remoteAddress] failed"))
-          log.debug("Connection established to [{}]", remoteAddress)
-          completeConnect(registration, commander, options)
+          if (channel.finishConnect()) {
+            if (timeout.isDefined) context.setReceiveTimeout(Duration.Undefined) // Clear the timeout
+            log.debug("Connection established to [{}]", remoteAddress)
+            completeConnect(registration, commander, options)
+          } else {
+            if (remainingFinishConnectRetries > 0) {
+              context.system.scheduler.scheduleOnce(1.millisecond) {
+                channelRegistry.register(channel, SelectionKey.OP_CONNECT)
+              }(context.dispatcher)
+              context.become(connecting(registration, commander, options, remainingFinishConnectRetries - 1))
+            } else {
+              log.debug("Could not establish connection because finishConnect " +
+                "never returned true (consider increasing akka.io.tcp.finish-connect-retries)")
+              stop()
+            }
+          }
         }
 
       case ReceiveTimeout ⇒