XBMC Launcher

This app is almost exactly what I need. However, when I hit home on my NVIDIA Shield TV Pro, Kodi relaunches every time. This creates a near 5 second delay which unfortunately makes it unusable. The ideal behavior would be to just return to Kodi's Home screen without reloading everything. If the dev can reach out to help, that would be awesome.

Does most of what I want but breaks when I press the home button while media plays. When I first hit the home button during a stream the screen freezes framez. Setting Kodi to stop media playback and go to the main menu when the home button is clicked seemed to fix the problem, except then if I try to play something else it comes back. I get the freeze frame of the old media but still get audio. End up having to restart Kodi through the settings to fix.

When i use Launcher for XBMC on an Android TVBox, it does not get an ip address and fails to start servers. By restarting Kodi it gets fixed. This needs to be done every single time the box is turned on. Would you please change that so that XBMC waits to get an ip address before launching Kodi (Leia)?

I saw your review of the other launcher app ripping off your app and adding adds. so i downloaded this one. Noice!

I don't know what the hell happened but this app took over my phone and wouldn't allow me to gain control back. I had to take it to my phone company to have it fixed... Not happy!!

Would be good, if you could delay web service at startup, as for the first start it always fails, and need to restart kodi with mouse :(

just great ! makes for a much better android tv experience

we will see

Great app. Have been using it for years to auto-launch Kodi on our home TV's. Am now making the switch over to Emby. Any chance you could add support for auto launching Emby for Android TV as well?

Brilliant. Does exactly what it says it will. Something that may be useful would be to have an option of a hotkey that takes you into Android Settings or perhaps even another configurable app before the system goes into Kodi as I have found that sometimes, especially with SPMC when some files become corrupt the installation (SPMC) does not recover and you are left with a blank screen. Again, this is totally the fault of SPMC not this app. :-D

At boot, it launches to Kodi very fast(faster than all other launchers which take about 40 seconds from android home screen). There is a big problem. The exit button in Kodi which normally takes you back to android home screen now takes you to a black screen. You can shut off the tablet by holding down the power button and then select power off, but once you power on the device it goes straight to Kodi again. This program needs to offer a way to get back to get back to Android screen.

Does exactly as intended to turn android box onto seamless media player via launching kodi at start up and setting kodi as home screen.

This as a great launcher. Would it be possible to add support for FTMC? The guys at freaktab have forked a version from spmc especially set up for android devices. Cheers again for a great launcher Awesome, thanks for the update.

He blunden I have a problem with this aap, that when a reboot my box kodi 16.1 Jarvis try to start but sudanly you app's confirmation menu comes on screen. And when I exit from it kodi started properly. Can you.please help me on this issu.

Thanks for the great app. I just have one problem with it, my x86 Android load so quickly that when Kodi start the network is not up yet, and the IP TV PVR crashes. Is it possible to add a delay in the settings, so that the launcher waits for, let's say a second, before starting Kodi?

Good concept need some more tweaking, Some time It breaks KODI and switch you to defaults if you have a custom build of kodi then this works perfect.

Doesn't work on Android TV (Nexus Player) w/ Marshmallow. Which unfortunately is out of the developers control. Otherwise it's a 5-star app.

I installed the ps4 theme on Kodi now it looks like my tab is a ps4 its also very fast and I never had a problem

Good application but not working with last update of Sony Android tv. I think is due to Google launcher on tv

Works great, nuff said

Just bought a MyGica media player today and its default launcher is an impossible-to-configure eyesore. Since I plan to just run XMBC 95% of the time anyway...this was a nice find. Only thing it's missing is a way to run the occasional other app for that 5% when I do want to (edit: found it).

Works Great! Maybe too well :( I installed this on my Nvidia Android TV and set Kodi to my default.,, Now I need to exit and get back to Android TV but when I exit Kodi it just automatically re-launches. How can I disable this??? Edit: Changed rating to 5 stars... I figured out my issue after reading the "Whats New"

Absolutely love this on the Nexus player, however, I got all excited for Android M and upgraded but xbmc launcher no longer worked, so had to downgrade back to Lollipop. I will be changing this to 5* as soon as it's up and running with Marshmallow. Any time frame for that? Or should it work and I'm just doing something wrong? Thanks again!

Works great just what I have been looking for access all apps in programs. Thank you :-))

Installed with Kodi 15.1 latest official release. I get a black screen now, nothing happens. What the heck do you do now, can't get to any menus to uninstall!

Have a problem in that I need to quit xbmc and let the launcher restart before the audio video streaming will work properly..

Was working great in Android M Preview 3. But final release of Android M, it no longer works. Please fix this!

All works great on boot but I can't find a way to get back out should I need to, the program settings do not work for me from kodi. Running shield andriod tv and kodi 15

Had to reset my phone as it took control and I couldn't get off of Kodi

Doesn't work on the current production firmware for nexus player