1.18.3

• Enables sparse encoding by default for SDK 32+. It can be disabled by
  setting sparse_encoding to DISABLED in the BundleConfig. See
  https://developer.android.com/build/building-cmdline#bundleconfig for more
  information
• Replaces injectMinSdk with injectMinSdkSetting in the BundleConfig

• Fixed resource remapping of Style Items for runtime-enabled SDKs
• Fixed deploy of runtime-enabled SDKs for API 33 devices
• Added flag to inject variant-level minSdk into split APK Android manifests
• Changed locale loading method to use LocaleLegacyCodes.
• Add support for --allow-downgrade in install-multi-apks command.
• Add support for T+ variant with uncompressed dex.
• Fixed segmentation fault when installing bundles on wearable API 25 devices.
• Added flag to enable sparse encoding

• Run validation as part of the build-bundle command.

• Updated bundletool help to include all commands.
• Open-sourced the code which is used for building APKs with build-mode
  ARCHIVE.
• Implemented support for device group targeting.
• Bundles which use device groups can include a config file
  containing the definitions, passed as the bundle metadata file
  DeviceGroupConfig.json or DeviceGroupConfig.pb in the
  com.android.tools.build.bundletool namespace. If the metadata is present,
  it must define all device groups referenced in the bundle. Device groups
  will be matched in the order that they are defined. A catch-all group
  other is automatically added to the end of the list, to support any
  devices which aren't matched by any of the metadata-defined groups.
• Fixed resource remapping for runtime-enabled SDKs.
• Added additional information to DeviceSpec, for evaluating device group
  membership.

• Additional validations for runtime-enabled bundles
• Added dump-sdk-bundle command.

Add an experimental feature to BundleConfig. Note that this is not yet functional and should not be used.

What's new

• Default page size is now set to 16 KB.

• Uncompressed dex enabled by default for Android Q+
• Update dependencies

• build-sdk-apks: Java API of the command supports overriding the value of android:minSdkVersion attribute in the manifest of generated SDK APKs.

What's new

• build-sdk-apks command now supports .asar format as input.