Xed-Editor is a versatile and extensible text editor for Android, featuring syntax highlighting, LSP-powered code intelligence, a built-in terminal, extensions, and fast project-wide tools for efficient editing.
To learn more about Xed-Editor, including its documentation, extensions, themes, icon packs, and account-related features, visit the official website: https://xed-editor.app
The app ships in two flavors:
| Flavor | applicationId | Extensions module | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
community |
com.rk.xededitor |
included | Default flavor. GitHub / F-Droid / IzzyOnDroid. |
playstore |
com.rk.axion |
excluded | Google Play build; minified, without the extension store. |
The community flavor is the default flavor (used by CI and by tooling that needs a default
variant). Build a specific flavor with a flavor-qualified task; the unqualified aggregate tasks such
as assembleDebug build every flavor.
The flavour is declared once per product flavour in app/build.gradle.kts as the
BuildConfig.FLAVOUR field, and each flavour's XedApplication publishes it during startup. Library
modules cannot read the application module's BuildConfig, so they should branch on the shared
com.rk.app.AppFlavour instead:
// True when this build bundles the extensions module and the user has not disabled it.
if (AppFlavour.current.bundlesExtensions && FeatureRegistry.isEnabled("enable_extension")) {
// e.g. show the theme/icon-pack/extension store entries
}Unknown or uninitialized flavours fall back to AppFlavour.COMMUNITY, so previews and unit tests
still work.
The playstore flavour bundles the arm64 Ubuntu rootfs at
app/src/playstore/assets/arm64-v8a/ubuntu.rootfs, so the terminal sets up without downloading it.
That flavour therefore supports arm64-v8a devices only and shows an error dialog on other ABIs; the
community flavour keeps downloading the matching rootfs from the network.
Choose one of the following build methods.
Option 1: Build Locally
Build the debug APK (signed with the included test key):
./gradlew assembleCommunityDebugThe compiled APK will be located at app/build/outputs/apk/community/debug/app-community-debug.apk.
To build the Play Store variant instead:
./gradlew assemblePlaystoreReleaseOption 2: Build with Docker
If you don't have the Android SDK or JDK 21 installed locally, you can build the project in a Docker container:
DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build --target export-stage --output ./out .The generated debug APK will be located at out/community/debug/app-community-debug.apk.
We welcome contributions! Please read the /docs/CONTRIBUTING.md file to
learn how you can get involved.
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