Adapt Android toolchain for Firefox 68 ESR

This is the (parent) ticket for adapting our toolchain for Android bundles built from Firefox 68 ESR.

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Parent Ticket: #30320 (moved)
Child Ticket(s): #30460 (moved), #31173 (moved), #31389 (moved), #31880 (moved), #30665 (moved), #31881 (moved), #31979 (moved), #31564 (moved), #31981 (moved), #32043 (moved), #31568 (moved), #31924 (moved), #31388 (moved), #30461 (moved)

added TorBrowserTeam201910 component::applications/tor browser ff68-esr owner::tbb-team parent::30320 priority::medium resolution::fixed severity::normal sponsor::44-can status::closed tbb-9.0-must-alpha tbb-rbm type::task labels

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510897 might be relevant here.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, TorBrowserTeam201905 added
Cc: boklm to boklm, sisbell

I built firefox code and it looks like we will need tools for the following

• Android NDK 17b
• Build tools 27.0.3
• Platform for SDK 28

Min sdkVersion is still 16

I noticed other downloads. These are not part of the Android toolchain but worth noting

• Rust 1.34.1
• node
• clang
• cbindgen
• clang-tidy
• nasm

Uses Gradle 4.10.2

Under 4.10.2 there is an error related to not being able to connect to gradle daemon. We need to start gradle using --no-daemon on projects dependent on updated toolchain.The daemon caches information when running multiple builds. Since we run build once per container, disabling daemon will have no impact.

In each project, we will also need to set the following property in the gradle.properties file. Otherwise we can get a failure to start due to missing licenses.

android.builder.sdkDownload=false

Moving tickets to June

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201905 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201906 added

Moving tickets to July

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201906 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201907 added

The latest work is on branch 0717. This build depends on my branch of tor-android-service, rather than the one at torproject.

https://github.com/sisbell/tor-browser-build/commits/0717

I just did a rebase with latest from master and their were some conflicts. I fixed those but now need to do a clean build to make sure everything is still working. I'll mark this for review once I verify the build sometime today.

Replying to sisbell:

Uses Gradle 4.10.2 NOTE: Gradle 4.10 has had three patch releases. You should use the latest patch release (4.10.3). https://docs.gradle.org/4.10.3/release-notes.html#upgrade-instructions

Starting with 9.0 keywords

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Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-9.0-must-nightly added

Adding Sponsor 44 to ESR68 tickets

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Sponsor: N/A to Sponsor44-can

Moving tickets to August, part 1

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201907 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201908 added

Move must-nightly items to must-alpha ones.

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Keywords: tbb-9.0-must-nightly deleted, tbb-9.0-must-alpha added

Moving must-alpha tickets to September.

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201908 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201909 added

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Keywords: N/A deleted, TorBrowserTeam201910 added

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201909 deleted, N/A added

We are done here, finally.

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Resolution: N/A to fixed
Status: new to closed

closed

mentioned in issue #31924 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31925 (moved)

mentioned in issue #30460 (moved)

mentioned in issue #30461 (moved)

mentioned in issue #30320 (moved)

mentioned in issue #30665 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31173 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31388 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31389 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31568 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31564 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31881 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31880 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31979 (moved)

mentioned in issue #31981 (moved)

mentioned in issue #32043 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#30324 (closed)