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Complete Newb to developing for kodi. I am looking to maybe developing a few add ons. Some of the first ones I'd like to create are for music. Because I notice. Some of my favs are not either in the lists. Or are not working. Like pandora is currently not working. So I need some guidance in learning how to make these add ons using the add on development. I have tried search youtube and there are surprisingly, no videos for it. Though I could've sworn I had seen one at some point and time ago. So any help that can get me started in this is appreciated. I prefer videos to reading, as I am a visual, and hands on learner. So if those can't come first. Then reading it is. Thanks in advanced.
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Welcome aboard. My advice to an approach for you would be to find an addon you use and like and look at what makes it tick. That means finding it on your HDD, and looking at the various files in a text editor. A text editor just like notepad will be your main developing environment when working wirh Kodi. You will find XML files that are used by Kodi ans PL files that are scripts/code in the Python language. You will google Python alot.. Kodi has alot of build in functions to be called from Python. You will find these on the Wiki. You might also need to use the JSON interface from your code. That is a simple way to get items from your library. In case thus Pandora is just a metdata scraper of sorts there is an xml interface that does alot for you. I am not famiæiar with that path myself. Yet. I got where I am today whicg is fairly knowledgeabke in scripting and skinning in about 6 months. GL
