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

[Josh Steiner]

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
<hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>
> 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 the gradle wrapper we ship in our project should handle off of
this for us.

>
> 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.

That's true, so maybe we need to make a giant build for fdroid, that's
just another build variant in the gradle config, it shouldn't be hard
to setup.

-Josh

>
> 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
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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