{"id":56143,"date":"2022-12-24T12:39:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T07:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/?p=56143"},"modified":"2022-12-30T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T08:43:57","slug":"important-things-to-know-when-developing-a-roku-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/important-things-to-know-when-developing-a-roku-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"Important things to know when developing a Roku channel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video streaming platforms have now become a part of millions of people&#8217;s daily video consumption patterns. Thus, content providers are racing to bring their offerings to OTT to maximize their reach to their viewers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/introduction-and-setup-in-roku-tv\/\">Roku<\/a> has quickly gained a market share among the various OTT platforms available today. It has the highest smart TV streaming watch time worldwide and has made its way into households through a wide range of products, ranging from low-price sticks to high-end set-top boxes.<\/p>\n<p>In this blog, we\u2019ll talk about the top things to consider for developing a Roku channel:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>1. Developer tools and extensions:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s better to always start with suitable tools and a code editor. There are several tools provided by Roku which help during the Roku channel development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are essential tools such as Roku installer, Roku Stream Tester, Roku Deep link tester tool, Roku remote, RALE, Static analysis, etc. You can check this with the below link in detail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Link: https:\/\/devtools.web.roku.com\/<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>2. BrightScript language:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BrightScript is a language that is only used in Roku channel development. The programmer can handle the application events and controls the backend task using the brightscript language.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>3. Scenegraph framework:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scenegraph is a framework that is used to design the UI of the Roku channel. The Scenegraph framework is based on XML. A programmer can have a basic knowledge of XML can easily get familiar with this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basically, the programmer can create a UI using scenegraph and handle that UI item with the help of brightscript.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>4. Code editor:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It&#8217;s always better to code with a suitable and recommended code editor. There are 2 best suitable code editors for Roku app development: VS Code and Eclipse. Roku provides various extensions for both code editors, which helps the developer to code faster and better.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ap-custom-wrapper\"><\/div><!--ap-custom-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video streaming platforms have now become a part of millions of people&#8217;s daily video consumption patterns. Thus, content providers are racing to bring their offerings to OTT to maximize their reach to their viewers. Roku has quickly gained a market share among the various OTT platforms available today. It has the highest smart TV streaming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4},"categories":[4683],"tags":[5064],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56293,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56143\/revisions\/56293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tothenew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}