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Uzair_Abdullah
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3 years ago
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New to roku developers platform, can't understand the code at all, after a month of study

Hello, I am new to Roku development. I took the course on youtube, saw the repository on GitHub, ran the code, and made some minor tweaks (like changing the rest API URL). But despite being on it for...
  • TwitchBronBron's avatar
    3 years ago

    I agree, there aren't many resources for this type of learning. Something like step-by-step interactive tutorials would be an incredible learning tool, but they just don't exist. 

    Not sure if it helps, but here's a small sample project that loads posts from reddit and displays them in a vertical list. Perhaps that can give you some insights into how to write your app?

    https://github.com/rokucommunity/sample-projects/tree/master/standard-with-task

    Another thing to check out would be the open-source jellyfin-roku project. It's a fully-functional roku app written to support the Jellyfin media server. There are tons of good examples of real-world code in there: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-roku