[tbb-bugs] #29080 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Merge OrbotService and TOPL

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#29080: Merge OrbotService and TOPL
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 Reporter:  sisbell                              |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_review
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-mobile, TBA-a3,                  |  Actual Points:
  TorBrowserTeam201903R, tbb-8.5                 |
Parent ID:  #27609                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by eighthave):

 One small but important thing to do with this merging is to make
 TorService be an actual Android `Service`.  That will help with the
 lifecycle issues a lot, and is the official Android interface for doing
 something like a UNIX daemon.  I did some quick prototyping, this
 basically means writing a thin Java and JNI shim layer where the Java code
 defines the subclass of `android.app.Service` and the JNI layer maps the
 tor daemon start/stop to the Java class.  We have to do something like
 this for Android Q anyway, since running daemons is now fully blocked:
 *
 https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/b2inbu/psa_android_q_blocks_executing_binaries_in_your/
 * https://android-
 review.googlesource.com/c/platform/system/sepolicy/+/804149

 I have some cycles allocated from Guardian Project to work on this kind of
 thing, so I'm wondering how best to integrate into sisbell's work.

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