2015-12-07, 20:25
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Hello all!
It's been a while since I've tried my hand at Kodi skinning...but I've taken it up again.
This is *another* skin inspired by Leanback Launcher, the default UI for Android TV devices. As I am an owner of a Nexus Player, an avid Android developer on XDA-developers.com, and familiar with the Kodi skinning language, I figured I'd be a great candidate to try my hand at this.
And so, here we are.
This is currently a WIP with no ETA for a release. I do this in my freetime, as I can.
Currently, I have the home screen set up to use 3x widgets - I still need to create "recommended" tiles, as well as add more widgets if desired. Each widget uses the Skin Shortcuts addon and allows for customizing the path, label, and layout style of the items.
The search window needs more work - it currently leverages Universal Search, but I will be playing with this to see what else I can do. The "search results" dialog still needs to be redone to be styled like Goooogle does.
I've begun work on the video window and default "leanback" browse view, but this is very tricky. It requires a lot of manual conditionals and such to work right, and I've still got bugs to work out. However...it's begun.
As you can see, I'm using the latest extendedInfo script to provide the info dialog - I'll be working on this to try and make it faster.
I've also *started* laying out the settings screen, and adding certain elements that will need to be used systemwide.
In short - it's still a mess. It's been a few years since I've done Kodi work. A lot has changed, and I've forgotten even more! But, as you can see, I've made this much progress in a little over a week, and I anticipate even more to fall into place now that I've worked out some of the more technical stuff.
And no - this is not affiliated with the project started by BigNoid. He and I discussed collaborating several months ago, but I haven't heard from him since. TBH, I would much more prefer to just work together with him. But alas, I'm impatient, so I started by myself. Hopefully, he and I can get together some time down the road and team up.
Stay tuned for updates!!
Video:
Hello all!
It's been a while since I've tried my hand at Kodi skinning...but I've taken it up again.
This is *another* skin inspired by Leanback Launcher, the default UI for Android TV devices. As I am an owner of a Nexus Player, an avid Android developer on XDA-developers.com, and familiar with the Kodi skinning language, I figured I'd be a great candidate to try my hand at this.
And so, here we are.
This is currently a WIP with no ETA for a release. I do this in my freetime, as I can.
Currently, I have the home screen set up to use 3x widgets - I still need to create "recommended" tiles, as well as add more widgets if desired. Each widget uses the Skin Shortcuts addon and allows for customizing the path, label, and layout style of the items.
The search window needs more work - it currently leverages Universal Search, but I will be playing with this to see what else I can do. The "search results" dialog still needs to be redone to be styled like Goooogle does.
I've begun work on the video window and default "leanback" browse view, but this is very tricky. It requires a lot of manual conditionals and such to work right, and I've still got bugs to work out. However...it's begun.
As you can see, I'm using the latest extendedInfo script to provide the info dialog - I'll be working on this to try and make it faster.
I've also *started* laying out the settings screen, and adding certain elements that will need to be used systemwide.
In short - it's still a mess. It's been a few years since I've done Kodi work. A lot has changed, and I've forgotten even more! But, as you can see, I've made this much progress in a little over a week, and I anticipate even more to fall into place now that I've worked out some of the more technical stuff.
And no - this is not affiliated with the project started by BigNoid. He and I discussed collaborating several months ago, but I haven't heard from him since. TBH, I would much more prefer to just work together with him. But alas, I'm impatient, so I started by myself. Hopefully, he and I can get together some time down the road and team up.
Stay tuned for updates!!
Video: