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Bug 41066: Compress the APKs more

Our APK was refused by the Play Store as too big.
As a workaround, for this release we can try to compress the APK more,
by extracting it and repacking it with 7-zip.
The preferred and long-term solution would be to switch to Android App
Bundles, but this might require some changes to our signing scripts.

@@ -46,13 +46,19 @@ mv $rootdir/[% c('input_files_by_name/noscript') %] "$noscript_path"
  mv $rootdir/allowed_addons.json $assets_dir/allowed_addons.json
 -[% c('zip', {
 -    zip_src => [ '$assets_dir' ],
 -    zip_args => '$apk',
 -  }) %]
 +mkdir apk
 +pushd apk
 +7zz x "$apk"
 +cp -R ../assets ./
 +find -type f -exec touch -m -t '[% USE date; date.format(pc("firefox-android", "timestamp"), format = "%Y%m%d%H%M") %]' {} \;
 +find -type f ! -name resources.arsc -printf '%P\n' | sort > ../files.txt
 +7zz a -tzip -mx9 -mtc- -spf ../repacked.apk @../files.txt
 +# resources.arsc must not be compressed as per the APK specifications
 +7zz a -tzip -mm=Copy -mtc- ../repacked.apk resources.arsc
 +popd
  aligned_apk=$(basename $apk .apk)_aligned.apk
 -zipalign -vp 4 $apk $aligned_apk
 +zipalign -vp 4 repacked.apk $aligned_apk
  # Sign a QA build. This .apk is not a debug version and doesn't contain a debug
  # flag in the manifest.

@@ -46,7 +46,13 @@ targets:
      var:
        verify_allowed_addons: 1
        arch_deps:
 -        - openjdk-11-jdk-headless
 +        - 7zip
 +        - openjdk-17-jdk-headless
 +      container:
 +        # 7zip is in backports in bullseye, and we can already use Java 17 for
 +        # apksigner.
 +        suite: bookworm
 +        arch: amd64
    torbrowser:
      var:
        prefs_file: 000-tor-browser.js

Pier Angelo Vendrame pushed to branch main at The Tor Project / Applications / tor-browser-build

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