[tbb-bugs] #27443 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Update Firefox RBM config and build for Android

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#27443: Update Firefox RBM config and build for Android
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 Reporter:  sisbell                              |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, tbb-mobile, TBA-a2,         |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201811                           |
Parent ID:  #26693                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by sysrqb):

 Replying to [comment:72 gk]:
 > We should not mix the Firefox build step with the bundling step if
 possible. If we need to bundle things (and we want to do that for the
 Orbot stuff) then this should happen in the `tor-browser` step where we
 already bundle things like extensions. And we need to open up the .apk
 anyway for that and recreate the signature. (So, the Orbot project should
 be a dependency for the tor-browser one not for the Firefox one).

 I chatted a little with gk about this on IRC. As a summary, this is
 complicated because Fennec and Orbot are now tightly coupled where Orbot
 is now a compile-time dependency of Fennec. Fennec uses some public
 constants defined by Orbot and Fennec now directly calls some Orbot
 classes. We may be able to add stub implementations of these and then
 rebuild/repackage the app in the tor-browser project with the real
 implementations, but that will need more time than we currently have for
 the upcoming release. We decided we can continue bundling Orbot in the
 Firefox build step and then re-evaluate this later.

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