Developing rich UI contents
In order to develop rich custom UI for channel with menus and user interactions, something like YouTube or the old Dish, is there any other way other than roImageCanvas and drawing everything ? I know...
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"squirreltown" wrote:"belltown" wrote:
They all feel to me like they weren't really designed for the Roku platform, lacking the smoothness you could get with roScreen
This is what I can't figure out. One thing about roScreen is it can be really slick movement-wise, there's just no excuse to have stuff stuttering around, and yet a lot of these "partner" channels do just that. What are they actually building them with? I haven't seen anything that couldn't be duplicated with roScreen, so why don't they use it?
Portability.
I guess they're using code they've developed for other platforms. If there's some sort of HTML 5 SDK that only the privileged partners have access to that will run code they've already written, then it's a lot less work to port that existing code to the Roku, rather than start from scratch on a one-off implementation using a new language, a new API/SDK, and a new platform, that they most likely have had no previous experience with.
