Roku Developer Program

[bosborne]

I'm looking to add some analytics tracking an application and need to track a session start / session end. Session start is easy. But how can I detect when a users closes the app? Do I have any chance to run code before the app actually closes? I'd like to send a session end beacon in that case.

[RokuChris]

"bosborne" wrote:
I'm looking to add some analytics tracking an application and need to track a session start / session end. Session start is easy. But how can I detect when a users closes the app? Do I have any chance to run code before the app actually closes? I'd like to send a session end beacon in that case.

When the user presses the Home button the channel will exit immediately and return to the Roku home screen. There's no way to detect the Home button.

http://sdkdocs.roku.com/display/sdkdoc/ ... -LevelMenu

[bosborne]

That is what I expected. Thanks

[RokuJoel]

On older devices, firmware 3.1 you might be able to get away with kicking off an http event on msg.isScreenClosed() when the home button is pressed.

- Joel

[bosborne]

Just checking in no this again to make sure support for the home button press hasn't been added? Like giving a little time to "cleanup" certain things.

[tvjay]

How do end a session then if you can't track the home button?

[destruk]

Most 'solutions' for this functionality will be ugly clutches - like polling the server at set intervals to 'keep alive'. Most of the time we simply settle for logging button presses or specific activity.

[bathejasumeet]

I have ran into a similar situation now, only possible solution I see is a timed event firing to capture event in analytics , but that would cause flooding and complex filtering logic at the part where events are received.

[Rek]

"RokuJoel" wrote:
On older devices, firmware 3.1 you might be able to get away with kicking off an http event on msg.isScreenClosed() when the home button is pressed.

- Joel

Can you offer some insight as to why there is no callback to the application when closing? I would love to have this in my own app, and I'm sure there are many developers who feel the same.

[TheEndless]

"Rek" wrote:

"RokuJoel" wrote:
On older devices, firmware 3.1 you might be able to get away with kicking off an http event on msg.isScreenClosed() when the home button is pressed.

- Joel

Can you offer some insight as to why there is no callback to the application when closing? I would love to have this in my own app, and I'm sure there are many developers who feel the same.

If I recall correctly, the original explanation was that it was to prevent channels from hanging the box indefinitely by including bad code in the close event.