[docwra]

Kodi Krypton has a new feature that allows Add-ons to contain preview screenshots.

It's pretty cool as you can see below on the Add-on screen:



Its pretty easy to add this to your Add-on:

Just add this to your addon.xml

Code:

<assets>
        <icon>icon.png</icon>
        <fanart>fanart.jpg</fanart>
        <screenshot>resources/screenshot-01.jpg</screenshot>
        <screenshot>resources/screenshot-02.jpg</screenshot>
        <screenshot>resources/screenshot-03.jpg</screenshot>
</assets>
<news>Initial Release</news>

And copy the screenshots to the resources folder.

NOTE: It's best to keep the icon and fanart in the root for backwards compatibility.

Kodi shows 3 screenshots on the screen but I suggest up to 9 (especially for skins) so the user can browse using the right arrow.

Screenshots should be used for all visual Add-ons I think, not just skins.

As an added bonus, you can use the "news" tag to inform the user of the latest update to your Add-on.

Go go go!

[User 342716]

If we have this code in Kodi 16 will it just be ignored or will it throw an error for unknown xml?

[docwra]

Yes it will be ignored, the code above is totally backwards compatible with all versions of Kodi.

[User 342716]

Yes it will be ignored, the code above is totally backwards compatible with all versions of Kodi.

Awesome, thanks!