Kodi, formerly known as XBMC, is a popular open source multimedia center. It is preferred by thousands of people. This is due to the large number of add-ons that the large number of customization options offered by Kodi already have. Kodi is available for iOS, although it is not officially available in the Apple App Store. While users who have jailbroken on their iPhone or iPad can install Kodi without any problem from their official repositories, it turns out that there are also ways to install Kodi on iOS without jailbreak.

Here are the ways to install Kodi on iPhone or iPad without jailbreaking:

Method 1: Using Xcode

The first method to install Kodi on your iPhone or on your iPad without having to jailbreak is to use a small Xcode trick that allows users to install third-party applications or unidentified developers.

Things you will need
To follow this process, you will need the following:

• IOS App Signer 
• A Mac with the latest version of MacOS
• The latest Xcode version of the App Store
• A .deb file from Kodi 

Do you already have everything? Well let's move on.

Installing Kodi in iOS 10

Follow the steps below to install Kodi on iOS 10:

1 Start Xcode and click on "Create a New Project".

2 When you see the main interface of Xcode, select "iOS", and click on "Single View Application". Then, click on "Next".

3 Give your application a name, "Product name", and an organization identifier, "Organization Identifier" . For this guide, we will use "KodiApp" as the product name, and "in.neeogangwar" as the identifier of the organization. Then, click on "Next".

4 Select a location to save the project and click "Create . "

5. In the interface that will open, click on the drop-down menu next to "Team" and select your name in the list.

6 Connect your iPhone or iPad to your Mac using a USB cable . Then, select it in the list of devices shown at the top, in Xcode.

7 Next, start iOS App Signer , the other application that you had downloaded. Click on "Browse" and select the Kodi .deb file that you had previously downloaded. You must enter your data in the drop-down menus with the labels "Signing Certificate" and "Provisioning Profile" . Then, click on "Start," the start button on the bottom right.

8 You will be asked for a location to save the output file . Select the place where you want the file to be saved and click "Save . " The application will do its job in a couple of additional steps.

9 . Once the iOS App Signer has done its work, return to Xcode. Here, click on the "Window" option in the menu bar and go to "Devices" .

10. Here, click on the "+" button in the "Installed Apps" section . Select the file that the iOS App Signer had exported, which has the .IPA extension.

Xcode will show you a message saying that your iPhone is busy, since it will start installing Kodi on your phone or on your tablet. Once you have done this, Kodi will be shown in the list of installed devices and, in addition, you can also see it on the home screen of your iPhone.

Acceptance of the certificate

Before you can start Kodi on iOS, you will have to accept the certificate on your iPhone telling iOS that it is trustworthy. To do this, follow these steps:

1 Go to Settings -> General -> Device Management .

2 Here you can see the application, then click on "Trust" .

3. Then, you can start Kodi on your iPhone and finally enjoy it. All of them without having jailbroken.

Before finishing, it is important to say that if you use an Apple ID that is not a developer ID and you have not paid the cost of the license, you will have to reinstall the application from Xcode every 7 days (a pain in the ass). However, if you send the application with an Apple developer ID, you can use the application for a full year before having to reinstall it.

Method 2: Using BuildStore

While the first method was completely free, the truth is that it is somewhat tedious and hardly makes up for making that to install only an application on your iPhone without jailbreaking. If you do not mind paying money, you also have this other method without jailbreaking.

BuildStore is a website that allows users to upload applications to their iPhones without jailbreaking . The problem is that you have to pay about 9.99 € per year as a subscription.

Installing an application from the BuildStore is very simple. You must go to the BuildStore website, find the application you want to install and click on Install. The application will be installed on your iPhone without any problem.

To start it, you'll have to trust the developer certificate on your iPhone just like you did after installing the application through Xcode.

Finishing

You can install applications on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus without having to jailbreak. There are a lot of applications that can be used with Xcode. The BuildStore method is much easier than using Xcode, but you will have to pay 9.99 per year to continue using that service.

In addition, with the BuildStore you can only register a device , so if you want to use the service on several devices, you will have to pay for each and every one of them. If you know any other way to install apps without jailbreak on an iPhone, you can leave a comment below.

Kodi is undoubtedly one of the most popular multimedia centers in the market. For those who do not know, we could say that it is a free and open source application that appeared in 2003 under the name of XBMC (Xbox Media Center). It appeared precisely as a multimedia center for the first Xbox, but soon became a native application for most popular platforms, including Windows. Linux, Android, Linux, Mac OS X and iOS.

In terms of functionalities, Kodi provides an interface that allows easy access to all your video, image or audio files stored on a storage device or through a local network or the Internet. To focus on the subject, if you want, you can find here everything you need to know about Kodi.

In this post we will see how to download and install Kodi on Ubuntu 16.04. In addition, we will also explain in detail the basic configuration that you should apply.

How to Download and Install Kodi on Linux

Assuming you have already updated Ubuntu to version 16.04, here are the commands that you must run in the Linux terminal to install Kodi:

  # sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
 # sudo add-apt-repository ppa: team-xbmc / ppa
 # sudo apt-get update
 # sudo apt-get install kodi 

If all goes well, the latest stable version of Kodi will be installed on your operating system. At the time this guide was written, the last one was version 16.1. If it is another, this guide is also perfectly valid. Let's confirm that everything went well with this series of commands:

  # kodi --version
 16.1 Git: b717c63 Media Center Kodi
 Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Team Kodi - http://kodi.tv 

Basic configuration

Once the Kodi installation is complete, go to the Unity desktop and run Kodi. Once the upload is complete, you will see the start screen. Here you will see a horizontal menu that shows several options or categories, such as videos, music, images, applications and more.

Once Kodi is configured correctly, the videos section will allow you to browse and play all the videos that this application detects in your system, as well as for music or images.

How to add your local content to Kodi

To make your local content available in Kodi, click on the corresponding option. Simply follow the steps shown on the screen and you can see all the content in the player interface. For example, click on videos and then click on the "Files" option. Then you must go to "Add videos" / "Add videos" , depending on the language of your player

Then, you should look for the routes or directories where the videos you want to add are located.

Keep adding more sources for your videos until you're done.

To play a video file, simply click on it and playback will start. Okay, yes, it's very obvious, but this guide will be read by people of a certain age. In the player interface you can change some options such as subtitles, although if the file does not have them, you have to add them. 

Now we know how to make your local videos visible to Kodi. You can do the same for music as well as for images. For content stored online, we have to make use of the Kodi Addons, so let's see how to install them.

Installation of accessories

We are going to focus on an example where we will explain how to navigate YouTube videos from Kodi . The first step is to click on "Add-ons" within the video section of the main Kodi interface. If we assume that it is the first time you use Kodi, surely you have none installed, so only one option will be shown to get more add-ons. Click on it.

You will see a list of available add-ons. Scroll through this list and select "YouTube . "

By clicking on "YouTube" , the add-on will be installed. However, in order to use it, you need to accept authorization for Kodi to access your YouTube account.

And ready; Now you can access YouTube content from Kodi. You can also install other add-ons available to access Internet content.

Some advices

We recommend you follow these little tips:

• Kodi needs you to name your files following some particular conventions so that you can identify some data, such as the year of creation of the video or the movie.
• Make sure your videos, music and photos are saved in separate directories. This will help you avoid unnecessary problems when you ask Kodi to scan the directories of your system.
• While it is possible to access the basic settings from System-> Settings on the home screen, the configuration files are located in the "$ HOME / .kodi /" folder on your system. It is recommended not to make changes to this folder until you know what you are doing.

And that's all. I hope you have been useful.