Kodi 18 Release Candidate 1 Now Available For This Leading Open-Source HTPC Software

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Kodi 18 Release Candidate 1 Now Available For This Leading Open-Source HTPC Software

Just in time for some holiday entertainment, the Kodi team has put out the first release candidate of their upcoming Kodi 18 "Leia" release...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kodi-18-Leia-RC1

[R41N3R]

Is Wayland now available by default or at least via a parameter? Last time I had to build this specifically with Wayland enabled, which is quite odd as Kodi did run really really stable on Wayland.

[Chewi]

Is Wayland now available by default or at least via a parameter? Last time I had to build this specifically with Wayland enabled, which is quite odd as Kodi did run really really stable on Wayland.

The last time I asked, which wasn't long ago, they said you can only built it against one backend.

[Guest]

Hopefully their Android app will get updated to target Android 8.0 - it still targets Android 5.1 !

[dragorth]

Hopefully their Android app will get updated to target Android 8.0 - it still targets Android 5.1 !

Targeting older Android versions allows them to support a larger set of devices, most of which never get updated.

[linner]

Not the least of which is about a gazillion Fire OS devices (Fire TV/Stick/tablet) running, you guessed it, Android 5.1.

[TLE02]

Michael "The 18 series is up to nearly ten thousand commands and has seen around"

commands/commits ???

[Michael]

Michael "The 18 series is up to nearly ten thousand commands and has seen around"

commands/commits ???

Yeah fixed thanks.

[Guest]

Targeting older Android versions allows them to support a larger set of devices, most of which never get updated.

Target SDK != Min SDK . They can support older devices and also target the latest version of Android.

Google made targeting Android 8.0+ mandatory for all updates, since 1st November 2018 - and new apps launched since August 2018 had to target Android 8.0.