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A Roku channel plays the content. The channel's implementation can be created using the scripting language, BrightScript, and its UI framework, SceneGraph; After you've successfully set up your hosting server(s), you'll need to consider which of Roku's two channel development models you'll want to use. This will determine a tremendous amount ...
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Creating a Roku app involves two programming languages: SceneGraph and BrightScript. These languages are used together similarly to how HTML and JavaScript are used for designing Web pages. SceneGraph is Roku's proprietary object-oriented XML framework. It is used to design the app UI. BrightScript is Roku's scripting language that is used to defin...
Roku provides developers with a suite of tools to make developing an app fast and easy. This includes a layout editor to help design the app UI, resource monitoring and profiling tools to help improve app performance, and a test framework for automating UI tests. The Roku developer community also provides a number of popular tools that streamline R...
The journey from novice to guru may not be without challenges, but Roku is here to help you master app development. Resources to help get you started on your journey include an online video course that guides you on each step in the app development process, a vast library of sample apps that demonstrate how to build an app and integrate key feature...
When publishing development tools and apps for the Roku platform, observe the developer terms to ensure compliance with the specified legal responsibilities, best practices, and guidelines. The developer terms includes a link to the Roku Trademark Guidelines, which specify rules for using Roku Marks and Roku Design Marks that must be adhered to. *b...
This document highlights Roku's approach to UIs for streaming media, with progressive levels of requirements which are crucial to pass Roku's channel certification process, as well as create a well-designed Roku channel. While channels that do not implement all best practices may still be deployed on the Roku platform, the practices outlined ...
Roku master sample channel. The master sample channel includes the code used to build the channel UI and implement the video ads, subscriptions, and deep linking features. The code used in these lessons has been packaged into separate channels that can be downloaded from Roku’s GitHub project and run on a Roku device.
In Part 1 of this two-part Roku Direct Publisher demo, Roku's Bill Shapiro provides a step-by-step guide to building a channel to reach an audience.
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box in development mode and to the Channel Store as a published application to end users. Note: In this documentation we refer to the development of new channels on the Roku player as “applications” since they consist of a set of scripts and related assets. Channels can access video
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