[tbb-bugs] #27609 [Applications/Tor Browser]: TBA: Evaluate Tor Onion Proxy Library

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#27609: TBA: Evaluate Tor Onion Proxy Library
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                               |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  Very High                            |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-mobile, tbb-8.5-must,            |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201904                           |
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                                                 |  Sponsor8
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Comment (by sysrqb):

 Replying to [comment:60 eighthave]:
 > In my experience, it is generally a lot smoother to do these kinds of
 file management activities before everything gets packaged into the APK.
 There are lots of little hacks in the final packaging steps to support
 zipaligning, zeroing out timestamps, v1 signatures and v2/v3 signatures,
 etc.  So by manipulating the APK, it'll make all those steps harder to
 deal with.
 >
 > For example, this could be done by a gradle Task that is called after
 compile or maybe as the first step of packaging.

 I wonder if we can build a single aar for this (where it includes all the
 libs), and then make copies of it and tweak each copy so it is arch-
 specific and only includes the needed binaries. Then we only inject the
 correct arch-specific aar into the firefox build stage. I'll open another
 ticket for this.

 I opened #30199 for other review comments on tor-android-service.

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