[guardian-dev] IOCipher v0.4: full support for Android 7.x and more

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at guardianproject.info
Fri Feb 10 05:09:55 EST 2017


You are saying that before, if you wrote "/myfolder/myfile.txt",
"/myfolder" would be automatically created?  If so, that's interesting,
I never realized that it did that.  In any case, the goal of IOCipher is
to behavior just like the java.io API, so that behavior would be a bug.

.hc

zoki:
> One major change is also that when you write to a file it doesn't create
> necessary folders anymore.
> 
> On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 2:27 PM Hans-Christoph Steiner <
> hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
> 
>>
>> We just completed an update to the IOCipher library to make sure it
>> works well on Android 7.x, as well as some general bug fixes and
>> updates.  There are also a couple minor features added to handle certain
>> edge cases.
>>
>> * fixed Android 7.x compatibility
>>
>> * POSIX behavior fixes in libsqlfs from Linaro
>>
>> * added method to finalize sqlfs on extra threads
>>
>> * port test suite to Android Studio/gradle
>>
>> * updated to android-database-sqlcipher 3.5.4
>>
>> * delete every container file even if a prior ones failed to delete
>>
>> * official releases use Java source/target 1.6 instead of 1.5
>>
>> * min supported SDK is now android-9 (2.3)
>>
>> * setup build and tests on gitlab-ci
>>
>>
>> To use it in gradle with android-database-sqlcipher:
>>
>>   compile 'info.guardianproject.iocipher:IOCipher:0.4',
>>
>> Or bundled with all dependencies:
>>
>>   compile 'info.guardianproject.iocipher:IOCipherStandalone:0.4',
>>
>>
>> You can also directly download all these here:
>> https://guardianproject.info/code/iocipher/
>>
>> .hc
>>
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