"ahmednuaman" wrote:
Coming from a strong front end dev background to connected devices I learnt that I should always develop for the lowest common denominator when it came to unified clients. For standard CE-HTML style dev I found it's mainly low end 2011 blu rays that seem to be the worst for performance. But now I'm starting dev for Roku devices so which device should I dev for?
If you want to be sure you're including all Roku streaming devices, only use functions included in 3.x firmware. The platform is abstracted enough that if you aren't depending on hardware functionality like the game controller or usb port, and don't use system calls that require newer firmware, the channel should technically run on the oldest hardware available. There are some memory and speed limitations with the older hardware to be considered, but they may or may not matter, depending on the nature of your channel. If you're implementing something with a custom ui, or requiring a lot of processing(say, a game or other highly graphical program), you may need to exclude the Roku 1 hardware, for instance.
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