HOW-TO:Install Kodi for iOS

Prerequisites: A jailbroken iDevice with Cydia on iOS 4.1 or higher.

Installing from Cydia

Steps:

1. Tap the Cydia icon on your homescreen.

2. Go to Manage - > Sources -> Edit -> Add (Sources -> Edit -> Add on iPad)

3. Type in "http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/ios/" (Without the quotation marks)

4. Tap on the teamXBMC source.

5. Tap on the XBMC-iOS icon.

6. Tap install, then confirm.

7. Let it install.

After the install finishes, close Cydia and tap on the XBMC icon on your homescreen.

Some hints for using XBMC on touch devices

• single tap: select/execute
• 2 finger single tap: context menu
• 2finger swipe left: go back
• beside that just drag or flick through lists...

Installing the latest nightly build

For various reasons, mostly technical, the Cydia copy of XBMC is not the most recent nightly build made by the build bot. Both versions are in development and are considered unstable pre-releases. It is recommended that you keep up to date on the latest nightly builds.

A list of changes can be found on https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commits

1. You must install from Cydia at least once before you are able to install a nightly build. This is to make sure all of the proper dependancies are met.
2. Open http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/darwin/ios/ in your browser and copy the url of the most recent file in that listing
3. In that url you just copied, make note of the file name after "../ios/". For example it will look something like "xbmc-20110822-e391fde-master-ios.deb"
4. Open up your terminal/ssh application and enter the following commands:

Note: it is possible to run a terminal application from an iPhone/iPod/iPad, meaning you can install/upgrade without a computer. Instructions for this, as well as GUI alternatives, are coming later

wget URL-FROM-STEP-2-HERE
dpkg -i FILE-NAME-FROM-STEP-3-HERE
rm FILE-NAME-FROM-STEP-3-HERE

You should now have the latest nightly build of XBMC for iOS.