Roku Developer Program

[lucasgonze]

If the user is on the home screen of your app and hits the up button on the remote, do you exit your app? Or do you only support exiting via the home button on the remote?

What the Developer Guide has to say is ambiguous: "The user may return to the top level at any time by pressing the Home button. Pressing the Home button will always exit the application and unconditionally return control back to the UI application shell."

[Anonymous]

Pressing up from the Channel's root screen does/should exit by convention. Hitting home is enforced by the system.

[TheEndless]

"RokuPatrick" wrote:
Pressing up from the Channel's root screen does/should exit by convention. Hitting home is enforced by the system.

Interestingly, however, the "up to exit" functionality seems to have disappeared from the latest Netflix channel. I regularly get caught out by that.

[lucasgonze]

TheEndless: yup! That's what threw me off.

I just implemented this and it feels really good. It's a very natural flow to up arrow all the way out to the Roku root.

[DeftOne]

The reason the up arrow method of exiting was removed from the new Netflix grid UI is because it became a common complaint that it was too easy to accidentally exit out of the channel when quick-scrolling up the grid. Obviously, this isn't an issue for the older style horizontal layout channels.