If you get something up you wanted tested, I’m more than happy to guinea pig.
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I ordered a Roku last night. I’ll make this happen. (Not overnight though. Gimme some time since I’ve got other stuff I’m working on too.)
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OMG, what I started… please let me know if you need an additional tester.
(Oh, cake day!)
I’ve got some hand-entered test data in a test version of the app and it seems to be working reasonably well right now. The live stream also works.
The app loads its data from a JSON file. Now that I’ve got the JSON file formatted with this test data, I can use this as reference to code a script that pulls data from the TWiT API and outputs a JSON file for the app to reference. It definitely looks different from the previous TWiT app and I’m hoping that I’ll be able to include a sizable backlog of all the shows.
The biggest pain in the butt is that any changes to the JSON file take FOREVER to show up in the test app. …so I’ve been making tweaks, working on other things while I wait, and then checking the app, making more tweaks, and then going back to other things.
Here’s a teaser…
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Thank you for your hard work.
The app is coming along nicely and I’ve got some episodes and all active shows in there via the TWiT API. However, Roku is sorting the shows poorly. It lists each year as a season (okay, fine, whatever), but those seasons are listed in chronological order…meaning the oldest episode of the current year is always listed first. There doesn’t seem to be a way to reverse the sort so that the most recent is displayed first…at least not in Roku’s Direct Publisher method. That’s super annoying.
Going to look into this more…
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@PDelahanty Did some googling and found this, https://community.roku.com/t5/Roku-Developer-Program/Note-about-the-Sort-custom-routine/td-p/451044
That might help.
Unfortunately that’s not something that’s available when creating an app with their Direct Publisher tools. Within Direct Publisher, there are options to sort categories, but apparently no options to set an episode sorting method for within a show/series or within seasons of that series.
I submitted the app on Friday. Not sure if it will be approved or not, but the earliest I can expect to hear is Tuesday. If there’s a fix for that weird sorting issue, I can always implement it later.
The app has up to 50 episodes of every show. (Obviously, there are fewer if 50 video episodes don’t exist yet.)
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I am developing a TWiT Roku channel that is in the review process. I should here some by tomorrow Monday 10/12/2020. The channel allows you to watch the live stream and the last 20 episodes of almost all the active shows. I’m new to the Roku process so I will see how that goes, one of the reasons Apple’s App Review is blocking the iOS/macOS version is because the All About Android show image was part of one of the screenshots. You can add the unpublished Roku channel using the link below or by using the access code: HDT5DH.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
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Thank you for your hard work.
I tried adding it, but was told “The channel code provided is associated with a channel not available in your region.” I’m in the United States.
The channel just went live on the roku store the link below should get you there:
Just took a look at the channel. Looks very good. Great job.
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Thanks, it works!
Not sure if possible with this technology but it would be nice to have a resume play (maybe also show a “last played” video link).
The app does provide a resume button, you should see when you back to the episode but per the developer documentation the app has no more than 16KB storage and it can cleanup by the system at will. I will look into the recently played list.
Again, thank you for your hard work on this.
Great Job !!! Thank You for all your work !!!