SPMC VS KODI: A HISTORY OF THEIR
RELATIONSHIP
• Kodi, formerly known as XBMC, was an Xbox media player. It only worked on Xbox gaming consoles.
Later, it evolved into a power pack multi-platform media player and changed its name to Kodi.
• SPMC was the brainchild of Koying, a developer. He released the earlier version of it years ago.
During that time, Kodi was struggling to become compatible with Android devices. So Koying was
contacted to join the Kodi team and work on the Android version of Kodi.
• The collaboration didn’t last long as Koying felt that the Kodi team is not focusing on Android solely.
It was true as Kodi team was always interested to make it a multi-platform app.
• When Koying wasn’t satisfied with the efforts, he left Kodi in 2016 and started working again on the
media player he had in mind all along. That’s how SPMC came into being and that’s why Kodi and
SPMC are interlinked.
• You can read our informative post about why using Android VPN is always a good practice for
Android users.