[cstark27]

How did you change the home button to launch xbmc?

I side loaded Llama, then basically set a variable at startup to true. Have to launch XBMC manually the first time, which changes said variable to false. Then one more event that says if variable is false and current app is KFTV Launcher, launch XBMC. This actually will just take you back to where you were in XBMC last, but oh well. And sometimes you'll see the Amazon home for a second before XBMC comes up. Not perfect, but also way easier for letting other people cruise around on the box.
See Llama events: http://i.imgur.com/MBcKNcA.jpg

That is neat. Is there a limit on the number of Apps that you can add to the home menu? Can you display them in a grid format to add more apps?

Amber only allows to set like 8 or so custom links in the GUI, but you may be able to edit the guisettings or favorites XML to add more. I don't know.

Sorry i'm not familiar with XBMC on android.. are you saying that xbmc can launch android apps directly?

Yeah, Frodo and Gotham can launch apps if you go to the Programs menu. Both versions, and with the right skin, will allow you to favorite those then add them as custom menus. Only Gotham correctly launches them though. If you have issues getting to the Programs menu, switch back to Confluence skin and favorite your apps there. Amber crashes for me when going to Programs. After that, you can switch to whatever skin.

After that, it's just tidying up the skin settings to your liking. I pushed some Hulu/Netflix/Youtube/Pandora pictures to the box to set custom backgrounds, and changed the layout to vertical. Disabled a lot of the menu links, then made this keyboard.xml:

PHP Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <menu>ShowSubtitles</menu>
      <backspace>Stop</backspace>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>
</keymap>