How to use Kodi, the most complete Android media player

Do you know the Kodi media player? If the answer is "No", you do not know what you are missing out on. If you ask me "what can I do with Kodi ?, I would have to answer" what do you want to do? ". Kodi is not a simple media player , and in fact I took a long time to do it when it was still called XBMC, but once we know how to take advantage of it, we can play any kind of content.

Kodi can play from music and movies we have stored on our hard drive to consume streaming content, which also includes watching live television, both free and paid channels. As I said, if you do not know it, you do not know what you are missing out on, and that is the reason why we want to provide you with basic information about one of the best, if not the best, media player that exists. And yes, it is available for Android .

Manual to download and use Kodi on Android

That Google Play relax more application acceptance has its bad things and its good points. The good thing is that in the official Android application store there are virtually all kinds of applications, and Kodi is available from Google Play . This has not always been so, and until not long ago we had to go to the web kodi.tv , choose the version for our device, which could make us try the two versions if we did not know what kind of processor used our Android device, And install it.

If it turns out that you use an Android version without Google Play, which is not very normal but it is possible, for example, in Remix OS, you can always install Kodi with the old method.

Once installed, we will have to make some recommended modifications:

The first thing I do is put Kodi in my language, Spanish. For this we have to go to System / Appearance / International / Language . We play the option and look for "Spanish".
Then, but this is personal preference, we can change the way the time is displayed from the "Region" section. I put it in "Spain (24 hours)".
If we want, we can change or download themes for the interface from the "Skin" section, but this is something I do not recommend for a simple reason: the "Confluence" skin is the default skin and most tutorials and routes We usually say based on how they are displayed in the default theme.

Now that we have Kodi in our language, we will have to make it do interesting things, for which we will have to install some addons.

How to install addons on Kodi, we show it on video

In the video that I leave you right above these lines you can see how easy it is to download and install KODI in our Android as well as start to install addons , a process that, although very simple and have several ways to get it, for users More rookies can be a real torture.

Installing addons on Kodi is very easy, but there are several ways to do it. If we have found it on the internet, we will have a .zip file and install it following these steps:

Let's go to System / Add-ons / Install from a file. Zip .
We looked for the .zip file that we would have downloaded.
We select it and that's it. We will wait until in the lower right corner a message appears notifying us that the addon has been installed. We are likely to see things installed that we do not know what they are, but they are dependencies. If this is the case, the addon will be fully installed when we see the message telling us that something has been installed with the same name as the addon in question.

But there is another recommended method, which is to add the repositories and install them from them. This method is a little longer, but it is recommended and will serve on any device , even if it can not access .zip files. We'll add a repository by following these steps:

Let's go to System / File Manager . Mind you, you do not have to enter completely. The option must appear below the main screen menu.
We touch "Add font".
We touch "<None>".
Here we put the URL of the repository. I recommend installing the SuperRepo, whose URL is http://srp.nu . Once introduced, we touch "Done".
Next, we touch below the blue text that says "Enter a name for this media source" and we put a name to it. SuperRepo is fine, but we can put what we are going to understand. When we have it, we play "Done".
To save it, in the next window we touch "Ok".
But, although it may seem so, we still will not have access to the repository. For this we will have to install it. We return to the main screen and go to System / Addons / Install from a file. Zip / superrepo , in case that is the name with which you saved it in step 5.
We chose the Jarvis folder, which is the v16,
Go to the "all" folder.
Then we have to touch on the .zip file that appears, which at the time of writing these lines is "superrepo.kodi.jarvis.all.0.7.04.zip" and, now, we will have the repository installed.

Once we have the repository installed, to install addons from it we will have to go to System / Addons / Install from repository and choose the installed repository which, in this case, would be "SuperRepo All [Jarvis] [v7]". Inside we have hundreds to choose from, so we will also recommend a few that are worth having installed in any Kodi that will price.

Best addons for Kodi

There are so many to choose from that I will recommend mainly the two that I have used, but I will also add some that I know that many users like.

Pelisalacarta

Pelisalacarta is nothing more than an addon that allows us to access pages where films, series and documentaries are available. It has an option that allows us to search the content directly, but it is best, for example, to enter the addon settings and configure our Pordede user and password, which will allow us to watch the pending movies, our favorites, etc. One of the best pages of its kind. Pelisalacarta is like a videoclub online, but free .

Adryanlist

The Adryan addon has been gaining in popularity over time. It is an addon that includes live TV channels (and other content), which will allow us to watch channels like Canal Plus League and many others.

The addon is Spanish speaking, which means it has Spanish and Latin American channels. Highly recommended, especially for users who do not want to get warmer.

Other recommended addons for Kodi

DexterTV : TV channels from many countries.
Plexus : to play channel lists, such as rtsp, m3u8 and rtmp, but works only with Sopcast and Acestream modules.
P2P Streams : also works with Sopcast and Acestreams modules. It offers higher quality than Plexus, but it is necessary to have a good internet connection.
SportsDevil : The holy grail of sports, but not as easy to install as other addons.

Watch live TV from Kodi

In addition to options like DexterTV or Adryanlist, there is also another very interesting. It is about installing , or rather activating the PVR add-on IPTV Simple Client , which is available from System / Addons / My add-ons / PVR clients . The bad thing is that this client is to reproduce lists of channels, something more difficult to obtain but that is full in Internet. If you want to watch live TV from Kodi with this addon you have to follow these steps:

From the previous route, we activated PVR IPTV Simple Client.
Once activated, go to the System / TV / General route.
Activate the box above, which is to the right of "On".
We go back to the System / Add-ons / My add-ons / PVR / PVR Client IPTV Simple Client route and choose "Configure".
At this point we have to enter the list that we have saved. We have several options, but I would focus on two:
Local route. With this option, we will only have to open a file that we have downloaded previously.
Remote route. We can also put the URL of the list that we have located.
Once the list is entered, restart Kodi.
When re-entering, the list will start loading and a new TV option will appear on the main screen, which is much better and better organized than the addons as Adryanlist

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