Kodi Community Updates for 2015

[crazed 9.6]

I have copied from the Kodi forum some of the highlights associated with some new and on-going developments the Kodi Team has planned or already underway.
Thnx Kodi team

http://kodi.tv/some-new-year-community-updates-2015/

Posted By: zag on Jan 15, 2015


Joystick API
Retroplayer is a big new project for Kodi that will eventually let you play classic games from inside the GUI interface. One of the building blocks required to merge this big project is an input API, which means the software needs to be able to recognize and configure gamepads, joysticks and other input devices, so you can play the games to their full potential.

http://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=194

Sports metadata
one of our team has created a new site which offers all kinds of sports metadata and an API interface to access that data! It’s only a matter of time until add-on developers start creating new features using the data from this site.

http://www.thesportsdb.com/

Extended info Add-on
Kodi developer Phil65, has written an exciting new add-on that provides lots of extra media info to skins. Any skin developer can integrate support into their skins using simple calls. There are many features the script can provide such as trending movies on trakt.tv, upcoming DVDs, music artist discographies, comic strips, the list goes on!


Official Android remote
The current developer of the android remote doesn’t have much free time to develop the official app so he’s removed it from the Google play store as it doesn’t work with the Helix release. The good news is he had started on a new version and has opensourced the code for anyone to continue development.

https://github.com/freezy/android-xbmcremote-sandbox

OpenELEC
Our friends at OpenELEC have released their latest update to fully support “Helix”, which you can download from their website. You don’t need any Linux knowledge to get it up and running and the best thing… it’s free!

http://openelec.tv/get-openelec

Add-on Front-end
The web page you use to browse add-ons. Anyone is welcome in the development and feedback.

https://github.com/xbmc/Addon-Frontend

http://addons.xbmc.org/

Milkdrop 2 Add-on
The current Kodi music visualizations have been around a long time and some of you may have got a little tired of the same old graphics. Fear not, because one of the greatest visualizations of all time has been ported to Kodi using our new binary add-on system! Milkdrop is now available for download on windows platforms after being open-sourced by its original developer and ported to Kodi by team member MrC.
Now that Kodi supports some binrary add-ons, we look forward to many more advances in music visualizations.

https://github.com/oO-MrC-Oo/Milkdrop2-XBMC

“Hello World” Add-on tutorial
As you can see from the many developments that are happening right now, people are writing features all the time, but how does the normal user get involved? We have been aware for a while that our “getting started” development guides need some work, so as a start, we have created an easy to follow “Hello World” guide for writing your first Add-on. Every programmer starts somewhere, and for most it’s a Hello World tutorial. Anyone can follow this guide and all you really need is a text editor and a copy of Kodi running on your machine. Give it a go, and let us know how you get on in the forum thread. We are particularly interested in anyone who can modify the code or guide and extend it with new features.

http://kodi.wiki/index.php?title=Add-on_development

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[Kimbo]

Great info thank you.