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Install service as dependency of add-on - Ceth - 2020-10-07
A made-up use case:
Let's say I have a regular video add-on that can be opened manually by the user.
Alongside this add-on, I want a Service that does some related stuff, and occasionally displays a notification to the user. The service/process should start- and stop along with Kodi, and not be affected by the video add-on.
I would like both the Service and the Add-on to be a single `.zip` so that the user only needs to install one package.
There are a few ways of doing this (like extracting the Service into `/addons` from the video add-on code), but is there a recommended way of handling dependencies like this?
RE: Install service as dependency of add-on - asavah - 2020-10-07
Take a look at youtube addon. It does exactly that.
https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/blob/master/addon.xml
RE: Install service as dependency of add-on - Ceth - 2020-10-08
(2020-10-07, 22:25)asavah Wrote: Take a look at youtube addon. It does exactly that.
https://github.com/anxdpanic/plugin.video.youtube/blob/master/addon.xml
Thanks for the link. So if I understand it correctly, it's possible to have a single package specify *both* a Service and a "regular" Add-on by providing the corresponding extension points?