Vexel v0.3.0

What's new?

Major changes

• Complete rewrite from Python to Kotlin
• Portable distribution for Android, Linux, and Windows
• Bundled Android build tools into vexel-main.jar
• Removed Python runtime dependency
• Removed bundled JRE
• Requires OpenJDK 17 or newer
• JAVA_HOME is now required
• Introduced consistent Vexel error reporting
• Bundled tools are extracted lazily and cached automatically.
• Large internal refactoring and code cleanup.

Platform support

• Added Android support (armeabi)
• Added Linux support (x86_64)
• Added Windows support (x86_64)
• Added support for overriding bundled build tools

Configuration

• Added config.toml support
• Added support for overriding bundled tools:
  • aapt2
  • zipalign
  • android.jar
  • Android NDK
  • JAVA_HOME
• Configuration file is searched next to vexel-main.jar or in $HOME/.vexel/

Runtime

• Build tools are extracted on demand and cached automatically
• $HOME/.vexel/ is now used only for cache files
• vexel-main.jar is installed to /usr/lib/

Other

• Removed example template
• Improved project generation
• Improved build performance
• Fixed numerous bugs
• Internal codebase cleanup and refactoring

NDK Support

• For Android (arm64) and Linux (arm64), Vexel currently relies on community-built Android NDK packages.
• Android (arm64): https://github.com/SuperAppMan/android-ndk/releases/download/r29/android-ndk-r29-aarch64-linux-android.tar.xz
• Linux (arm64): https://github.com/SnowNF/ndk-aarch64-linux/releases/download/0.0.2/android-ndk-r29-linux-aarch64.tar.gz

Notes

• Kotlin source compilation support is coming soon.