[guardian-dev] GP libraries and apps that will be impacted by Android L changes?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

It would be worthwhile to see if this can be done without gradle.  There is no
gradle setup on the build server, and gradle is very much a moving target,
with incompatibilities between versions and no clean, easy way to install it,
so its a lot of work to support it on a build server.

I think gradle will only really help if we go the approach of building
multiple APKs.  Having each APK include only the exact targeted platform
(armeabi, armeabi-v7a, x86, mips, armeabi-PIE, armeabi-v7a-PIE, x86-PIE,
mips-PIE) means that users cannot do FDroid swapping of that app unless the
two people swapping have the exact same platform.

Fun fun fun...

.hc

Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> 
> So the plan is:
> 
> 1) Add the PIE flag to all of our native build scripts, with some
> optional argument that allows us to build with and without PIE
> 
> 2) Migrate apps that depend on native binaries to use Gradle, and
> develop build logic that creates APKs for 4.0 and earlier and 4.1 and
> later bundling the appropriately compiled binaries.
> 
> We'll start with StoryMaker and Orbot, and then apply what we've learned
> to other projects.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014, at 10:48 AM, Josh Steiner wrote:
>> Could you give me some info on how to deal with it if we set minsdk to
>> 4.1?  We are already in process of bumping up to 4.0+ and would
>> consider moving to 4.1 if it solves major problems for us.
>>
>> -j
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>>
>>> SQLCipher, IOCipher, android-ffmpeg, Orbot, GnuPrivacyGuard, and Lil Debi are
>>> affected.  CacheWord, NetCipher, TrustedIntents, and F-Droid are not affected.
>>>
>>> If your minimum target SDK is android-16 (aka 4.1) then it will be easy to
>>> deal with.  Otherwise, it'll be a chunk of work that is annoying to do.
>>>
>>> In the meantime, we should set maxSdkVersion="20" in our apps so that people
>>> don't try to install it on Android L.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> David Oliver wrote:
>>>> I understand from a prior post that Android L introduces new requirements
>>>> for native executables (and/or native libraries).  Can someone advise here
>>>> which of the GP libraries and apps are likely to be impacted in the near
>>>> term?
>>>>
>>>> For my part, and to my limited understanding, the
>>>> Courier/Paik/Idaho/YakReader suite will not be impacted by these new
>>>> requirements directly (unless SQLCipher, IOCipher and/or CacheWord are
>>>> impacted).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Dave O
>>>>
>>>> David M. Oliver | david at olivercoady.com | http://olivercoady.com |
>>>> http://dmo.tel | Ostel: oliv | +1 970 368 2366
>>>>
>>>>
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