Update: Kodi has been updated from 16.1 Jarvis to Kodi 17 Krypton. Read Here for How To Install Kodi 17 and Exodus. For those still needing to use the older Kodi 16.1 Jarvis here is a link to the download. File Name ↓ File Size ↓ Date ↓; Parent directory/--old/-2017-Oct-24 17:59: kodi-18.0-Leia_rc4-armeabi-v7a.apk: 60M: 2018-Dec-28 17:10: kodi-18.0-Leia_rc3.
Since GitHub is the platform where almost all open source software development takes place, we felt that naturally there should exist a Git Browser for Kodi. No longer will you have to worry about having to figure out how to install a particular Kodi addon or repository. This new feature puts control back into the hands of the user, giving you the ability to use any Kodi addon you’d like. It also gives developers the freedom to create and distribute Kodi addons without having to align themselves with a particular group or web site. Now you can install any addon you’d like, directly from the individual addon developer’s repository, in a matter of seconds. For best results, all you need to do is input the addon developer’s GitHub username into the search. This is the new and improved method of Kodi addon installation!
Once you have the latest version of our Indigo tool installed, you can take full advantage of the new Git Browser functionality by navigating to the Addon Installer section. After that, we recommend inputting the GitHub username of the developer who’s addon you wish to install. We’re assuming that developers will begin to make an effort to advertise their GitHub usernames, however you can always search through the GitHub web site on your computer to figure it out on your own. In case you’re not aware as to why this is so useful, we’ll explain how addon installation worked in the past. When a developer created an addon on GitHub, they would also have to submit their addons to Fusion Installer (or an alternative file manager source), but now that middle step that would involve joining a bigger group, is no longer necessary.
Required: New Indigo Tool (August 2017) on Kodi 16.1 Jarvis or Below
If you’re using Kodi 17.0 Krypton or Above, click here for the Git Browser guide for the latest versions of Kodi.
Step 1: Navigate to the Add-ons tab under the VIDEOS menu heading within Kodi.
Step 2: Launch the Indigo tool.
Step 3: Select the Addon Installer menu.
Step 4: Click on the Git Browser feature.
Step 5: Press any button to dismiss the instructional message after reading.
Step 6: Click on the Search by GitHub Username function.
Step 7: Input the exact GitHub username of the developer using the on-screen keyboard, then press the Done button.
Step 8: Click on the latest version of the Kodi addon you wish to install.
Step 9: Press the Yes button to proceed with the Kodi addon installation.
Step 10: Wait a minute for the Kodi addon and dependencies to download and install. Don’t touch anything just yet.
Step 11: Click on the Restart button to finalize the Kodi addon installation.
Step 12: Relaunch Kodi and once again navigate to the Add-ons tab under the VIDEOS menu heading.
Step 13: Find the Kodi addon you just installed available for use!
We hope that you are just as excited about this new method of Kodi addon installation as we are! We spent about six months pefecting the functionality and hope everyone else is ready for the future of Kodi addons. If you enjoyed this guide, please be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and share our link with everyone you know.
Kodi 16.1 Jarvis is officially available to download and update. Keep reading for details about what is changes in Kodi 16.1 and for a link on how you can download and update.
The Kodi team has officially released Kodi 16.1 Jarvis and you can download it today! Check out the release notes from the Kodi team below and then you will see a download link as well! If you install over top of your existing Kodi setup, all of your add-ons and settings SHOULD be safe, but it’s always a good idea to back things up first just in case!
Once a ‘final’ version is released some new bugs and/or problems usually appear out of nowhere, and this release is no exception. Even though tens of thousands of users were already testing the 16.0 version before release and we as team trying very hard to prevent any problems, as soon as millions start using the released version some problems we either did not think of or which we did not notice before pop up. To counter some of these new issues, we’re bringing you this maintenance release called 16.1 which has some additional fixes on top of the 16.0
It should be ok to just install this on top of your current Kodi 16.0 version without uninstalling previous version. For the MySQL users out there; we never bump the database versions in our bugfix or maintenance releases – you can safely keep using it within your network.
Fixes done in Kodi 16.1 Jarvis
Kodi Jarvis 16.1 Download Arm
• Never cache addons directories
• Fix typo when calculating forced ratio size
• AndroidStorageProvider: Ignore /mnt/runtime and don’t call Exists all the way every some 500 ms as this will affect performance
• Set of fixes for DirectX rendering
• Fixed crash under JSON-RPC on iOS/OSX
• 20% performance gain on opening EPG guide window
• Add missing libgif.so to the Android package
• Fix Kodi freezing if no ADSP add-on is present
• EventServer security fix by only allowing localhost
• Fix possible lockup when entering EPG grid
• Fix possible problems with rendering on Windows
• Fix possible non working key presses after a key long press
• Don’t do a video chapter skip if there’s only one chapter
• Fix possible lock up by increasing timeout to let screensavers properly exit
• Fix render capture (bookmark images) on certain hardware with DXVA on Windows
• Fix problem in ZeroConfBrowser that could cause problems on exit
• Fix crash one OSX 10.7 when trying to resolve HDD names
• Fix possible crashes when using VAAPI and DXVA video rendering
• Fix song reported on playback of songs from cuesheet