Android TV Apps: Kodi v18.1 RC1 Leia, Now Available

We already have  Kodi v18.1 RC1 Leia  ready to download, a version that updates detected bugs in the official version 18.0. A version that substantially changes its internal code and makes for example that the skins compatible for this last version are only a few, since they need to be updated in each version. Soon we will have a final version of this new update that will also be distributed by Google Play.

List of most important changes in this version:

• Speed ​​up Player and Playlists operations with JSON-RPC
• Define a senseful default value for advanced settings "updateemptytagsinterval"
• Revert edge case crash fix that caused DVDs to be not recognized on Mac OS
• Remove "dxvaallowhqscaling" advanced setting to prepare for DXVA improvements in v18.2 for Windows
• Linux X11: fix usage of required configuration values
• Add date to the log records
• Do not react on DPI change event on Win10> = FCU
• Fix Android MediaCodec freeze on early disposal of a stream
• Flush streamplayers if abort is requested which solves waiting too long (on skipping DVD intros, for example)
• Fix ListitemAbsolute and ListItemPosition in GUI engine
• Ignore very first "server not reachable" notification for PVR servers
• Use extended result codes for SQLite
• Fix invalid PTS decoder value which should inprove MPEG2 playback on Android devices
• update SSL CA trust store
• Handle empty vertex buffers in GUIFontTTFGL which caused a hard crash
• Reintroduce setting "Close channel OSD after switching channels" for PVR
• Fix thread logging on Android which causes eg frozen DVD / Bluray playback
• Avoid attempt to load music info for smartplaylists
• Fix Top 100 Albums regression
• RenderCapture: Only query Occlusion if GL lower 1.5
• Check current mode if whitelist does not match and take correct action
• Check if app intent is valid on Android. This fixes to hard crash when trying to open Kodi again
• Fix PVR input stream creation for pvr file items only containing a path and no recording / channel tag.
• Fix playing VP9 streams using inputstream addon. It failed because codec extradata is non-existent for this stream codec.
• Catch an exception while reading or writing a file
• Fix logical "or" operation in GUI engine
• Check the system capabilities to support sleep states S1 / S2 / S3 / S4 before reporting them as available
• Fix crash in PCSX ReARMed with BIOS
• Several Estuary cosmetic fixes

• For Android, download the 32bit ARM7A version, the 64bit V8 version only for Soidia NVidia, Realtek and some Rockchip.

Android ARM (32 bits):

Android ARM (64 bits):