Creating the content feed
About this lesson
This lesson explains how the content feed is used to load and organize content in the app UI. It describes how the SceneGraph Content node maps metadata in your content feed to components in your app UI, and it provides a few tips for creating and hosting your own feed.
Resources
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Sample content feed | Examine the content feed used by the sample app for this course. This content feed includes three content types: shortFormVideos, series, and movies.
Each video in the feed includes a unique ID, name, description, thumbnail image, and URL used to populate the app UI. In addition, each video includes a genre field that is used to categorize the videos into rows of related content. |
| Feed specification | You can use the Roku Direct Publisher feed spec as the guideline for your content feed, and then configure it as needed. The sample content feed, which is used by the sample app in this course, is based on this spec. SceneGraph apps built with the Roku SDK, however, are not required to follow a certain feed specification. |
| Roku third-party developers | Publishers needing help developing their app or creating their content feed can contact one of Roku's third-party developers listed in this document. Each studio in the list has successfully developer and launched Roku apps. |
| Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and Online Video Platforms (OVPs) | If you need help hosting your content feed, you can contact one of the CDNs or OVPs listed in this document. Each platform has been used by publishers to host content for their Roku apps. |
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How to watch
Play the embedded video above or go to SceneGraph: Creating the content feed on the Roku Developers YouTube channel or access the Roku Developers channel on the Roku platform.
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