Posts in "Plugin" category

Recently I have made a video tutorial for my Web-PDB debugger for Kodi addons. This is my very first attempt to make a video tutorial so it is far from flawless. But I hope that enthusiasts who develop Python addons for Kodi mediacenter will find it useful. (...)

This is the 4^th article in my series about building and using binary Python modules in Kodi on Android. In the previous article I described how to import a binary Python module in Kodi for Android. In this article I will briefly cover 2 C++ libraries used for writing binary Python modules: Boost.Python and Pybind11. (...)

This is the 3^rd article in my series about building and using binary Python modules in Kodi on Android. In the previous article I described how to build a simple "Hello World!" binary module. In this article I will tell you how to use binary Python/C extension modules in Kodi for Android. (...)

This is the 2^nd article in my series about building and using binary Python modules in Kodi on Android. In the previous article I described prerequisites for building such modules. In this article I will cover building a simple Python/C extension module for Python in Kodi for Android. (...)

Important WARNING!

On recent Android 7 firmwares for some devices, including my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1, the magic workaround that allows to load binary Python modules from Kodi addons no longer works. This means that currently there is no known way to import binary modules in Python addons on such devices. Because of this the following series of articles now has only historical value since there is a strong chance that you won't be able to use your compiled binary Python module(s).

This is the 1^st article in my series about building and using binary Python modules in Kodi on Android. In this article I will cover prerequisites needed to build a Python/C extension module for Python in Kodi for Android. (...)