This will be the hardest part of the tutorial but it shouldn’t be to complicating if you follow the video above or the instructions below. Using ADBFire To Install the Kodi Shortcut on The Fire TV Our next step is to work with the program ADBFire and use the Ikono TV app to launch Kodi. Once this is installed you’ve completed the first portion of this tutorial. Simply click it and choose the option to download (where it says Free). You should see an icon with a pink background like in the image below.There’s a good possibility it won’t auto find something in the menu below but you should still be able to find the app we’re looking for. Inside of search type out “IKONO TV” and hit enter. Exit out of the Settings menu and make your way to the top where you can search for apps, movies, and TV shows.Inside of here our next step is to simply turn both “ADB DEBUGGING” and “APPS FROM UNKNOWN SOURCES” to On.Inside here scroll over to “SYSTEM” and choose “Developer Options”. To start we need to scroll down to “SETTINGS” on the Fire TV menu. First thing we need to do is enable access to third party options.Don’t be alarmed these programs simply give us the opportunity to configure some things on the device in order for this workaround to function. Now that you have everything downloaded and installed (hopefully) our next step is to prep the Fire TV so we can install some third party programs. Your Fire TV IP Address, to find it simply navigate to the SETTINGS, then SYSTEM, Then ABOUT, and scroll down to NETWORK.You’ll need to download a program called ADBFire which you can download here.The tutorial also assumes you’ve managed to already install Kodi on it.There are certainly a few things you need to accomplish this. ![]() If you’re comfortable enough using it you can just easily skip a step and install Kodi through ADBFire. It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to install Kodi through ES File Explorer and then resort back to using ADBFire just to install the shortcut to our home screen. In the video above I’ve provided a brief walkthrough on how you can find it. ![]() This really is very simple to accomplish but you’re going to need to understand how to find your Fire TV IP address and such. But I still need to be able to click the Kodi icon from the home screen because I’m lazy. I no longer have to pull out my laptop or use my computer everytime I want to try and update the latest version of Kodi. The reason I choose to use ES File Explorer is it makes it easier to update. This method typically seems strange because in order to add a Kodi shortcut to the home screen you can just as easily install Kodi this way. Following up on the past two tutorials I’ve written this week I thought I would try and finish it off by showing you how you can avoid having to go into the settings menu to launch Kodi.
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