Rather than hardcoding the NDK version inside a script, encode it
as a file in the filesystem, which is easier to share.
Make sure we use the desired NDK by setting environment variables.
Use `-androidabi 21`, which:
1. is what rclone did: 8390ba4ca9
2. is the minimum ABI used by probe-android: 994651be52/app/build.gradle (L10)
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/2130
This diff forwardports 856e436e20d511a4f0d618546da7921fa9f8c5f6 to the master branch
Original commit message:
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This pull request changes `mk` and github workflows to build and publish binaries on tag. We also update the documentation to explain this new branching model. Basically, we have release branches where we produce binary packages and we add extra code, on tag, to publish such packages inside a release.
We discussed removing most secrets from builds in this repository and having a different tool/repository that takes in input also secrets for doing follow-up actions after publishing. As a consequence, this pull request also removes all pieces of code that require secrets. The next step is to reinstate this code in this new repository/tool.
The existing code in `mk` also implemented caching. This feature was useful when doing local builds because it reduced the time required to obtain binary releases. With builds running as part of GitHub actions, we don't need caching because we spawn parallel machines to build binaries. Therefore, let us also remove caching, which makes the code simpler. (Caching in itself is hard and in https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1875 I noted that, for example, caching of the `ooni/go` repository was leading to some unwanted behaviour when changing the branch. Without caching, this behaviour is gone and we always generally use fresh information to produce builds.) Of course, this means that local builds are now slower, but I do not think this is a problem _because_ we want to use GitHub actions for building in the common case.
Reference issues: https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1879 and https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1875.
The final aspect to mention to conclude this description is an implementation one:
```
gh release create -p $tag --target $GITHUB_SHA || true
```
The code above uses `|| true` because there could already be a release. So, basically, it means that, if a release does not already exist, then we're going to create one. Otherwise, it does not matter because there's already a release.
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1440.
Basically, let us continue to update our build infrastructure so that we can release v3.10.0-beta.
Now, it's the turn of iOS.
* refactor: start building an Android package
Part of https://github.com/ooni/probe/issues/1335.
This seems also a good moment to move some packages out of the
engine, e.g., oonimkall. This package, for example, is a consumer
of the engine, so it makes sense it's not _inside_ it.
* fix: committed some stuff I didn't need to commit
* fix: oonimkall needs to be public to build
The side effect is that we will probably need to bump the major
version number every time we change one of these APIs.
(We can also of course choose to violate the basic guidelines of Go
software, but I believe this is bad form.)
I have no problem in bumping the major quite frequently and in
any case this monorepo solution is convinving me more than continuing
to keep a split between engine and cli. The need to embed assets to
make the probe more reliable trumps the negative effects of having to
~frequently bump major because we expose a public API.
* fix: let's not forget about libooniffi
Honestly, I don't know what to do with this library. I added it
to provide a drop in replacement for MK but I have no idea whether
it's used and useful. I would not feel comfortable exposing it,
unlike oonimkall, since we're not using it.
It may be that the right thing to do here is just to delete the
package and reduce the amount of code we're maintaining?
* woops, we're still missing the publish android script
* fix(publish-android.bash): add proper API key
* ouch fix another place where the name changed
