Development Tools
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 Development |
Add-on development |
Development Tools
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Below you will find software that can be useful in Add-on Development.
Python IDEs
Visual Studio Code
| Developer: | Microsoft |
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| Price: | Free |
| Description: | Code editing, redefined. Free and built on open source; runs everywhere. If you're not a pro or you are not used to working with another IDE, use this. |
| Notes: | Start by installing the Python extension provided by Microsoft.
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PyCharm
| Developer: | JetBrains |
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| License: | Proprietary (with Perpetual Fallback License) |
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| Price: | Free — *requires approval |
| Description: | PyCharm is a dedicated Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for smart and intelligent Python development, including code assistance, refactorings, visual debugging, and version control integration. |
Eclipse
| Developer: | Eclipse Foundation |
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| License: | Eclipse Public License 2.0 (EPL-2.0) |
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| Price: | Free |
| Description: | Eclipse is an integrated development environment developed by the not-for-profit Eclipse Foundation, originally targeting Java. It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment to suit work on a wide spectrum of popular programming languages. |
| Notes: | Start by installing the PyDev extension provided by Brainwy Software.
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Visual Studio
- Main page: HOW-TO:Python Development in Visual Studio
Auto Completion Add-ons
Kodistubs
| Developer: | Roman Miroshnychenko[1] |
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| License: | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Platforms: | Python ≥ v3.6 |
| Price: | Free |
| Description: | The main purpose of Kodistubs is to help you to write Kodi addon code in various IDEs by providing code completion, quick access to Kodi Python API docstrings, and code inspection (linting) in IDEs that provide this feature. |
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Frameworks
KodiSwift
Description
KodiSwift is a small framework to ease development of Kodi add-ons. It is an xbmcswift2 fork with API updates. Whether you are an experienced addon developer, or just coding your first addon, you’ll find benefits to using kodiswift.
Homepage
https://xbmcswift2.readthedocs.io/
PyXBMCt
Description
PyXBMCt is a Python framework for simple Kodi addon UI building. It was inspired by PyQt (hence the name) and shares the same basic principles, so those who are familiar with PyQt/PySide should feel themselves right at home. The framework provides 4 base classes, 9 ready-to-use widgets or, in Kodi terms, controls, a Grid layout manager and an event connection manager. PyXBMCt uses texture images from Kodi’s default Confluence skin to decorate its visual elements. Those textures are included in PyXBMCt, so UI based on it will have the same look in different skins.
Homepage
https://romanvm.github.io/script.module.pyxbmct/
Codequick
Description
Codequick is a framework for kodi add-on's. The goal for this framework is to simplify add-on development. This is achieved by reducing the amount of boilerplate code to a minimum, while automating as many tasks that can be automated. Ultimately, allowing the developer to focus primarily on scraping content from websites and passing it to Kodi.
- Route dispatching (callbacks)
- Callback arguments can be any Python object that can be "pickled"
- Delayed execution (execute code after callbacks have returned results)
- No need to set "isplayable" or "isfolder" properties
- Supports both Python 2 and 3
- Auto sort method selection
- Better error reporting
- Full unicode support
- Sets "mediatype" to "video" or "music" depending on listitem type if not set
- Sets "xbmcplugin.setContent" base off mediatype infolabel.
- Sets "xbmcplugin.setPluginCategory" to the title of current folder
- Sets "thumbnail" to add-on icon image if not set
- Sets "fanart" to add-on fanart image if not set
- Sets "icon" to "DefaultFolder.png" or "DefaultVideo.png’ if not set
- Sets "plot" to the listitem title if not set
- Auto type convertion for (str, unicode, int, float, long) infolables and stream info
- Support for media flags e.g. High definition '720p', audio channels '2.0'
- Reimplementation of the listitem class, that makes heavy use of dictionaries
- Built-in support for saved searches
- Youtube.DL intergration (https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=200877)
- URLQuick intergration (http://urlquick.readthedocs.io/en/stable/)
- Youtube intergration
- Supports use of "reuselanguageinvoker"
Homepage
https://scriptmodulecodequick.readthedocs.io