Roku offers OS licensing and certification programs to television and hardware manufacturers looking to leverage Roku’s software capabilities. Roku TV Partners Build best-in-class smart TVs using the Roku OS and TV platform to provide customers with an intuitive, easy-to-use software environment with a robust content offering.

Modular UI components speed app development. Roku apps are built using BrightScript, a powerful scripting language, and SceneGraph, an object-oriented XML-based UI framework.

Resources to help get you started on your journey include an online video course that guides you on each step in the app development process, a vast library of sample apps that demonstrate how to build an app and integrate key features, up-to-date documentation, and a passionate, dedicated developer community that has built some of the best ...

Get a Roku device. You can purchase a Roku device from Roku.com, your local electronics retailer, or a second-hand marketplace. Activate developer mode on your device. This enables you run sample apps on your device to help you learn Roku development and being running and testing your own apps.

Once you get a Roku device and enroll in the Roku developer program, you can put your device in developer mode, sideload apps using the Roku web plug-in, and then run sample apps and test and debug your app application.

The Roku Developer Program empowers content publishers to build apps for the Channel Store. The Developer SDK provides the tools for creating and customizing an app from scratch.

Developer Dashboard – where to update your channel and developer profile (e.g. view channel analytics, update channel store information, submit channel for certification, etc). Knowledge Center – where to find the answers to your partner-related questions (e.g. developing with Brightscript, setting up Roku Pay, certification process, etc).

The Developer Dashboard serves as the central control center from which a developer can manage apps, Roku Pay products, or search feeds, as well as view analytics and enroll in the partner payouts program.

Roku Search feed format — Specifications for formatting a Roku Search content feed, which enables content from an app to be discoverable from Roku's universal search feature; Streaming Store graphics — Format details for implementation of standard graphic elements of an app's UI.

Developers can use the self-serve certification testing tool in the Developer Dashboard to verify that their apps meet performance and deep linking certification requirements. This enables developers to independently test their apps and update them …