How To Create a Lightweight Build for Kodi?

This guide will show you how to create a beautiful build for kodi 21 Nexus in a few simple steps, So you can put your personal touch and beautify your Kodi even more without losing any of the hard work you have done before like add-ons and settings.

Still, Kodi is one of the best solutions if we want to watch any multimedia content in high-quality video and audio. It gets even better if we transform it with our own style without losing our add-ons or the settings we have made. We are just changing the skin and we will have a very fast build crafted to suit our very specific needs.

This way you will run a very light and fast build. It will have only the necessary add-ons that you like and everything will go through a very beautiful environment.

In fact, many builds are available for you to use on Kodi, some of them are already prepared to use on the latest version of Kodi. But the problem with these builds is that they come packed with many add-ons that might not be necessarily important to you or don’t respond to your needs, or they come without the add-ons you normally use. Yes, you can install them, but you will ruin the performance and the speed of your Kodi.

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Create a lightweight build for kodi 21 Nexus

Create a lightweight build for kodi 21 Nexus

Requirements

To proceed with the creation of your own Kodi build, you must of course have installed some of the best add-ons you want to embed in the new custom build.

If you have already these add-ons on your Kodi, go directly to the next step.

Step 1 – Install the skin

First, we need to download the Aeon Nox SiLVO skin through the official Kodi repository.

Go to Install from repository

Select Kodi Add-on repository

Select Look and Feel

Then Skin

Choose Aeon Nox: SiLVO skin

Click on Install

Click OK to install the necessary dependencies and add-ons for this skin to work perfectly.

A notification will ask if you want to switch to this skin. Click Yes

Then another notification will ask if you want to keep this change. Click Yes

Once you press yes to define the new skin, it is important to do absolutely nothing. You need to give it some time to shape the new environment.

In few seconds, you will see, on a black background, the predefined menu of the new Kodi Skin. Reminiscent of the layout of most builds.

Step 2 – Set a custom background

Our next step is to add some of your favorite photos to get Kodi the background you want. Follow the path described below:

Once the new skin starts, it will let you know that it comes with no default background. This means that you have to set one. Click Yes to continue

Now, from the three options, select Set multi-image background

In the next window, select External storage

Pick the folder containing the photos you want to set for the background

Remember: you can always change the background any time you want. To do so:

From the main menu go to System

Then Enter Interface

Under the Skin tab in the left menu Select Configure Skin

Now under General tab on the left menu, click on Set default background

From here you will have to choose whether you want to set a single image background or a multi-image background. To get a beautifully animated background, select the second option: multi-image background

In the next window, select External storage

Now find the file that contains the photos you want to set as background for your Kodi.

Once you return to the main panel, the image you selected will be displayed. If you select a folder with our favorite photos, they will be rotated in the main panel of Kodi.

It is good to remember that the better the resolution of the photos you set for the background of the build, the more impressive the result will be.

Step 3 – Setup widgets

From the main screen of Aeon Nox, click on “System“

Next, go to Interface

Under the Skin tab in the left menu, select Configure Skin

From the “Customization” tab, select Setup the Aeon Nox main menu

Now, we are going to setup a widget for the MOVIES item of the menu:

From the “MOVIES” section, select “Change Action”

Then “Add-ons“.

Select Video add-ons

Now, you have to choose the add-on you want. For this guide, we are going to use the Revolution add-on, one of the best working add-ons for Kodi 19 for Movies and TV Shows.

In the next tab, click on “Movies“

Now finish by clicking on “Create menu item to here“.

Then, carefully and without accidentally leaving the same section of the MOVIES that are on our left, scroll down and click on “Select Widget 1”

Then “Select widget”

In the next window, select Add-ons

Then Video add-ons

Choose exactly the same add-on you used before. In our case Revolution

Now, click on Movies.

At this point, it is up to you to select a category you like from the list that appears for example, “New Movies” or “Most Popular“, or any other category you want. Here, we have selected the New Movies category.

Once you make your choice, you will have to wait a while for the works to be registered.

Now, finish this job by first selecting “Use as Widget”

And then “Done“.

Step 4 – customize the widget style

This skin offers you the ability to place the thumbnails of movies and TV series on the center panel to cover the entire surface horizontally, in a nicer shape.

In this case, you have to set the “Widget style” from the tab that will appear right after you click “Done“.

Under Widget style, select Panel extended

In the next window, activate the option Panel widget info

Then click on Case and select Glass

With this, you have successfully setup a widget for the Movies item.

You can have an even more impressive result with the Movie thumbnails on the main screen by adding a second row to the same item for another category of content. Just follow the exact same steps explained above to setup “Widget 2“.