Re: Tor on Android

[Connell Gauld <cmg47@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:31 -0400, Nathan Freitas wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Andriy Panchenko
> <andriy.panchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         BTW, maybe it makes sense also to keep/support a general
>         purpose
>         OnionCoffee besides that, specially tailored for mobile
>         devices?
>         
>         
> 
> Yes, figuring out how to branch/fork segments of the code,
> specifically around HTTP/SSL/TLS and JSSE will be important, since
> that is the primary difference between Android and JDK 1.6. In
> addition, the removal of AWT/UI calls from within the core OC engine
> is another step needed to keep the majority of codebase working
> between the two platforms.
> 

There are not too many AWT calls in OC itself. Providing a clean,
platform independent, interface for setting up, controlling and getting
the status of the Tor implementation would seem very important. That way
an AWT/Swing frontend and an Android frontend can both use the same
codebase.

Connell