[guardian-dev] distributing the tor binary as an AAR

[Nathan of Guardian]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016, at 07:33 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: 
> I just had a thought: since Briar and Orbot both are building tor and
> need regular updates, we could package the tor daemon binary as an AAR
> and publish it on maven repos.  Then there can be a neat and clean build
> for just the tor daemon, and it would make updating it really easy in
> the apps.

Yes, this makes a lot of sense. I know both Thali and Briar have created
headless Tor Service libraries in the past, but I like the idea of
separating just the binary build process. 

The other step I would really hope we can take is to move to a pure NDK
build process for this.

> This would be worthwhile as long as it is easy to use the tor daemon
> binary from the AAR package.

I think this is possible. I will work on it this week at tor-dev as part
of wrapping up my gradle refactoring efforts.

+n

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