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Christian Jungerius edited this page Mar 30, 2024 · 17 revisions

AKL offers many features and possibilities. But if you want to get the complete experience you might want to read up on a couple of things here.

After install

Directly after you have installed the addon following the steps from the installation page, the addon's background service will start up. AKL will then scan your kodi installation to see if you have any AKL compatible addons installed. If not it will ask you if you would like to install the default plugin for AKL. For new and standard users I recommend to install it too.

The basics

AKL uses 'Sources' and 'Launchers' to run your games or apps. A Source is, similar as videos and libraries in Kodi itself, a source location containing ROMs/games. You then need a Launcher to actually launch each particular ROM or game. A launcher can be an Emulator application, or your Steam launcher or any other application you need. You can then associate Launchers with Sources and let the games begin.

When you install the default plugin it will support Sources and Launchers available on filesystem locations (directories and files).

First run

Opening up AKL the first time you will start in an empty root with only the main menu options visible.
From here you will have the possibility to add:

Possibilities

Once you have created your library structure you can fill, prettify and execute everything in it. You can choose to: