HOW-TO:Change data location for Android

As of v14, Kodi supports a backdoor to specify the location of your settings folder, which includes the userdata folder and add-ons.

To do so, create a file name xbmc_env.properties in the root of your external storage (normally, "/sdcard"). Its content is simply:

xbmc.data=<path to the xbmc data root>
e.g. xbmc.data=/storage/sdcard0/external_sdcard/xbmc_data

Inside this, a directory ".kodi" will be created which contain the well-known xbmc structure ("addons", "userdata", ...).

Currently, the specified path must be an android file path and not a typical network path. i.e. no "smb://" or "nfs://". To use a network file path you must first mount the file share in Android, and then point to that mount path.