diff --git a/recipes-ros/vision-opencv/cv-bridge_1.11.15.bb b/recipes-ros/vision-opencv/cv-bridge_1.11.15.bb
index a268b9b..ad70ceb 100644
--- a/recipes-ros/vision-opencv/cv-bridge_1.11.15.bb
+++ b/recipes-ros/vision-opencv/cv-bridge_1.11.15.bb
@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=11;endline=11;md5=d566ef916e9de
 
 DEPENDS = "boost opencv rosconsole sensor-msgs ${PYTHON_PN}-numpy-native"
 
+# This option disables python2 support because we can't support both python2
+# and python3 since OE upstream has disabled python2 bindings in Boost.
+EXTRA_OECMAKE =+ "${@'-DANDROID=ON' if d.getVar('PYTHON_PN', True) != 'python3' else ''}"
+
 require vision-opencv.inc