Advanced Kodi Launcher was another (friendly) fork from Advanced Emulator Launcher
version 0.10.0 in 2020 by Chrisism.
AKL closely follows AEL, but focusses on being more modulair and being able to support
different types of launcher applications.
Kodi forum thread: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=366351
Advanced Emulator Launcher was originally forked from Advanced Launcher version 2.5.8 on May 2016 by Wintermute0110 [email protected]. First public released version of Advanced Emulator Launcher was 0.9.0 on Aug 2016.
Kodi forum thread: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=287826 AEL contributors: Chrisism, Paradix, Rufoo.
Advanced Launcher was originally forked from Launcher by Angelscry. First version of Advanced Launcher was released on November 2010. Other people credited in Advanced Launcher are JustSomeUser, CinPoU, Leo212, Zerqent, Zosky, and Atsumori.
Kodi forum thread: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=85724
Launcher was the original project that started it all. First Launcher version was released on August 2008. Launcher was developed by JustSomeUser, CinPoU, Leo212, Zerqent and Zosky.
Kodi forum thread: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=35739