[tor-bugs] #30461 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Update tor-android-service Project to Use Android Toolchain (Firefox 68)

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#30461: Update tor-android-service Project to Use Android Toolchain (Firefox 68)
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 Reporter:  sisbell                              |          Owner:  tbb-
                                                 |  team
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_revision
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-rbm, ff68-esr, tbb-9.0-must-     |  Actual Points:
  nightly, TorBrowserTeam201908                  |
Parent ID:  #30324                               |         Points:
 Reviewer:                                       |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor44-can
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Comment (by sisbell):

 Replying to [comment:10 gk]:
 > Here are some comments:
 >
 > 1) Where is the `remove-vpn.patch` coming from? I doubt that it applies
 to our current HEAD. If we need to have patches for `tor-android-service`,
 please provide them against our repo. That's the canonical one now.
 I'll submit a merge request for the changes. The tor-android-service on my
 branch has moved the vpn into its own module, so this patch will remove it
 entirely from the build.

 >
 > 2) I doubt we still need `export
 GRADLE_MAVEN_REPO="file://$gradle_repo"` as the patches relying on that
 are gone?
 Good point, we are now using command line to set repo. I'll remove this
 line.

 >
 > 3) How do I re-create the dependencies list? I tried now for a while but
 still failed. Please update the `how-to-create-gradle-dependencies-
 list.txt` so I can verify your work.

 I'll add those changes now, but basically with gradle 4.10 download logs
 only show up in debug mode and I have a new grep command since the output
 is very different.

 Change firefox/build
 export GRADLE_FLAGS="--no-daemon --offline --debug"

 cat logs/firefox-android-x86.log | grep "Performing HTTP" | grep -o
 "https://.*" | sort | uniq > downloads.log

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