How to Customize Kodi on My Android TV

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Learn how to customize Kodi on your Android TV with this comprehensive guide. Enhance your streaming experience with personalized settings and add-ons.

By default, Kodi’s interface isn’t too attractive, although it is functional enough. At least when you get used to using the media center, since Kodi can be overwhelming at first . Different content categories, thousands of add-ons, settings… And it also includes a huge amount of customization, not very accessible at first glance.

Kodi Skins, change your Android TV completely

As I was saying, Kodi’s generic look is more about functionality than aesthetics. Blue background, black menus with white letters and no outlines on the buttons… That’s how it looked to me from the start, the times I used it I didn’t need anything else. Although I admit that by giving it a different touch the experience changes color. And I mean literally.

So, how to change the look of Kodi on Android TV? The first thing to clarify is that the app works the same on all devices, whether it’s a mobile phone, a TV or a player. They all support skins to give the interface a new look. And the good thing is that these skins (does anyone remember the legendary Winamp?) are downloaded from Kodi itself.

  • Open the Kodi app on your Android TV.
  • Click the cogwheel at the top left of the screen and enter “Interface.”
  • You will see that by default you have the “Stuary” skin active. Click on it.
  • Click on “Get more” to download new skins for your Kodi.
  • There are multiple skins to download and apply directly. You can choose the one you want, although you won’t see what it looks like until you apply it to your Android TV ( you can get an idea of ​​what it looks like on the web ). I opted for “FTV”, an interface that resembles that of the Amazon Fire TV.
  • Click OK on the skin you want and Kodi will download and install it on your Android TV.
  • Go back to the interface selector, click on “Skin” and choose the one you downloaded. In my case, FTV. Accept with ok on the controller.
  • Accept the “Keep skin” message and you’re done.
  • You can change skins as many times as you want until you find the one you like best.

Once you apply the theme, your Kodi will have completely mutated. And each skin allows for customization: you can activate or deactivate functions, remove categories from the access menus, from the shutdown menu… The number of options is huge.

All skins can be downloaded from Kodi itself and activated/customized from there

It’s worth customizing the look of the interface, not just in terms of the graphical appearance, but also in terms of the menus: the more you specify Kodi’s functionality, the more you’ll get out of it. And without wasting time digging through menus with the controller.

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