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

Michael Rogers michael at briarproject.org
Fri Oct 17 07:05:33 EDT 2014


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On 16/10/14 03:36, Nathan of Guardian wrote:
> Since we are mostly concerned about ARM devices, maybe we could
> include both non-PIE and PIE binaries in a single ARM APK build. I
> am content with breaking sharing capabilities between ARM and MIPS
> or ARM and x86 for now. If we include all the native bits for all
> the possible platforms, plus the PIE variants, our APKs will be so
> huge that no one will be patient enough to install or share them
> anyhow!

Another possibility: the APK you share isn't the APK you're using,
it's a minimal installer containing Orchid and the checksums of all
the platform-specific APKs. It uses Orchid to download the appropriate
APK for the recipient's platform.

But that requires access to the Tor network, of course...

Cheers,
Michael
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