Roku Developer Program

[Fran_3]

Hopefully some kind soul will save us a little reading and research time... 🙂

Once one develops and gets a new Roku channel approved...

As I understand it...

1 - It is then available as a private channel...
so a viewer must know of the channel already
and then find the code to add it as a private channel... right?

2 - Or is the new channel available in the Roku Store so that a potential viewer can...
... browse the Roku Store
... discover the channel
... then add it to their channels?

3 - Or can you design from the beginning to be listed in the Roku Store?

4 - And the big question is this... Is there a way to be listed by default in the standard Roku Channels... like NetFlix, etc...
So the potential viewer doesn't have to "dig" to find the channel?

Thanks for any help.

[TheEndless]

Most of those questions are answered by the documentation in the SDK. Take a look at the ChannelPackagingAndPublishing.pdf.
There is no difference between a private and public channel aside from visibility to the end user and the approval process for publishing.

[Fran_3]

a. - Is a Public Channel 'viewable' as one of the out-of-the-box 'default' channels...

b. - Or must the potential viewer go to the Roku Store and find the channel... then 'activate' it ?

Thanks for the help.

[TheEndless]

"Fran_3" wrote:
a. - Is a Public Channel 'viewable' as one of the out-of-the-box 'default' channels...

b. - Or must the potential viewer go to the Roku Store and find the channel... then 'activate' it ?

Thanks for the help.

Most likely the latter. You may want to contact partners@roku.com to discuss options for that.