Re: Tor on Android

[Lexi Pimenidis <siegen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:07:21PM CEST, Connell Gauld wrote:

Hej,

> I'm the guy who who developed TorProxy and Shadow on Android.

Well done, from what I've heared.

> For android, if we are targeting consumers' devices (rather than, say,
> rooted devices) we are restricted to using Java and android's Native
> Development Kit. The NDK makes it possible to write small sections of
> code in C/C++ but doesn't provide much in the way of libraries. It's
> really designed for optimising the small sections of a Java application
> that are bottlenecks. In addition, there may be Java platforms for which
> an NDK isn't available.

If we target to develop a fully featured Java version, as well as a 
small memory footprint/small CPU consumption version for small devices
that would be OK. Is it realistic to have a third version (replace the second)
with one specifically targeting Android? (the later resolves to the
question of how significant the share of users and the performance gain is)

[anyway I think we both come to the same conclusion:]

> So perhaps the best way to go is to get a solid Java implementation that
> can be customised (performance wise) for whichever devices are
> appropriate?

I fully agree to your opinion :)

-- Lexi

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