Overview

Roku regularly hosts webinars to provide the Roku development community with detailed coverage of key Roku development tools and features. The webinars are usually led by Roku engineers or other subject matter experts, and they typically include a presentation explaining the importance of the feature, a demo showing how it works, and Q&A session for addressing questions from the Roku developer community. Webinars also include Roku's annual developer summit.

Demos provide in-depth walk-throughs of various tools and software that help developers create, manage, and publish customized Roku app. Demos in this section include debugging, testing, and managing access to apps.

This webinars and demos section includes the following videos:

  • App Tracing (with Perfetto): This webinar, presented on February 16th, 2026, demonstrated how you can use Perfetto to record, analyze, and visualize traces of your Roku apps to pinpoint where you can reduce resource consumption and optimize performance.
  • Developer Summit 2025: Roku held its annual developer summit online on September 16–17, 2025. The Developer Summit opened with the keynote address, which included a welcome address from CEO Anthony Wood, the traditional recap of the past year in streaming and key industry trends, new product and feature announcements, and a summary of new features recently added to the Roku Developer Portal. Announcements made during the keynote included: Roku Cloud Emulator (scheduled for release in 2026), Phased App Rollout, and Optimized data transfer and reference handling APIs. After the keynote, a series of panel discussions were held over two days that included: Developer Tools, App Performance, Platform Stability, Beta Program, Community Tools, Content Discovery, Audience Growth, Roku Pay, Localization, and SceneGraph.
  • Catalog 2.0 Webinar: This webinar, presented on July 28th, 2025, highlighted the new product catalog in the Developer Dashboard (Catalog 2.0), which is currently being rolled out. The webinar also demonstrated how Catalog 2.0 helps you create and manage your subscription and one-time purchase products.
  • Developer Summit 2024: Roku held its annual developer summit online on September 24–25, 2024. The summit opened with the keynote address, which included the traditional recap of the past year in streaming and key industry trends, new product and feature announcements, and a summary of new features recently added to the Roku Developer Dashboard. After the keynote, a series of panel discussions were held over two days that included: SceneGraph, Developer tools, community tools, voice AI gaming, test automation, and more.
  • Enhanced Subscription Recovery Webinar: This webinar, presented on July 15th, 2024, explained reviewed the Enhanced Subscription Recovery feature and explained how to implement, test, and enable it in your apps.
  • Roku Resoure Monitor Memory Management Webinar: This webinar, presented on June 18th, 2024, explained how developers can build task nodes in their apps to efficiently use memory and CPU resources, manage the duration and number of rendezvouses, and implement observer functions, which run when tasks are completed.
  • Roku Resoure Monitor 3.0 Webinar: In May 2024, Roku's Developer Platform team explained how developers can use the Roku Resource Monitor to identify memory and CPU consumption trends and patterns in their apps. This webinar highlights the latest features in the tool, including new graphs that track BrightScript object allocation patterns in apps.
  • Roku OS 13.0 Developer Features Webinar: In April 2024, Roku's Advanced Tech team reviewed the new SceneGraph and BrightScript APIs, media and content metadata enhancements, and developer tool updates included in Roku OS 13.0.
  • Roku Pay JWT-secured Push Notifications Webinar: In March 2024, Roku explained how developers can integrate JWT-secured push notifications to securely receive Roku Pay transaction data in near-real time. Topics covered in this webinar included how to use Roku Pay push notifications to manage entitlements, the difference between JWT-secured and non-authenticated messages, and the workflow for implementing JWT-secured push notifications in your system. The webinar also featured a demo of a JavaScript app for implementing JWT-secured push notifications.
  • Developer Summit 2023: Roku held its annual developer summit online on September 12–13, 2023. The summit opened with remarks from CEO and founder Anthony Wood, who was followed by a series of speakers who recapped the past year in streaming and highlighted key industry trends for the upcoming year; summarized new platform features; and provided updates around video ads, Roku Pay, and the Roku Developer Dashboard.
  • Submitting a search feed: This video demonstrates how to validate and submit a search feed using online tools and the Roku Developer Dashboard.
  • Roku Resource Monitor Webinar: In September 2022, Roku demonstrated how developers can use the Roku Resource Monitor to identify resource consumption trends and patterns in their apps. Topics covered in this webinar included why the Roku Resource Monitor is an important tool for testing apps, the public ECP commands that power the tool, the different resource consumption metrics tracked by the tool, and the different modes of operation. The webinar featured a demo showing how to use the tool to monitor the memory, CPU, and node usage on a sideloaded app.
  • Roku Advertising Watermark Webinar: In July 2022, Roku presented a webinar explaining the Roku Advertising Watermark to developers. Topics covered in this webinar included what is the Roku Advertising Watermark; how does the watermark help publishers, advertisers, and partners; requirements for implementing the watermark; and how developers can integrate the watermark in their apps.
  • Roku Voice Webinar: In June 2022, Roku presented a webinar updating developers on the latest Roku Voice features. Topics covered in this webinar included current voice control and voice keyboard features, latest voice-related certification requirements, and how voice can be used to select user profiles, enter email addresses, and provide passwords. The webinar featured a demo showing how to integrate voice keyboards in an app (voice keyboards enable customers to enter their email addresses, PINs, and passwords via voice and text entry).
  • Trickplay Thumbnail Webinar: In May 2022, Roku presented a webinar demonstrating how to integrate trickplay thumbnails in an app. Topics covered in this webinar included how trickplay thumbnails enhance the playback experience when rewinding, fast-forwarding, and seeking content; certification requirements for video content that is longer than 15 minutes; and available trickplay formats (HLS, DASH, and Roku’s BIF format). The webinar featured a demo showing how to generate, test, and implement trickplay thumbnails for HLS, DASH, and BIF formats.
  • Developer Summit 2021: Roku held its annual developer summit online on October 26–27, 2021. The summit started with a keynote address that recapped the past year in streaming and highlighted key industry trends for the upcoming year. The keynote then highlighted the opportunity for publishers to distribute their apps in Germany and recapped the latest Roku Voice features. The keynote also included a summary of the latest updates to self-serve certification and certification requirements. During the keynote address, Roku announced a number of new platform features, including Instant Resume, the new Search feed spec 2.0, and Developer Dashboard 2.0. Also announced was the release of the Independent Developer Kit (IDK) and betan app feature, and the sunsetting of non-certified apps.
  • Germany Channel Distribution Webinar: In September 2021, Roku presented a webinar explaining how to take advantage of Roku’s expansion into Germany by publishing apps to Roku's Germany Streaming Store. Topics covered in this webinar included: the importance of being in the German Streaming Store upon its launch and the opportunity offered to by the German market, updating your app in the Developer Dashboard, updating your Roku search feed, and localizing Roku Pay in-app products.
  • BrightScript Profiler Webinar: In November 2020, Roku presented a two-part webinar series on using the BrightScript Profiler to optimize app performance. In part one, Roku explained the importance of memory management for Roku apps, demonstrated how to use the BrightScript Profiler to collect memory and CPU usage data on an app, and answered questions about the BrightScript Profiler from attendees.
  • Developer Summit 2020: Roku held its annual developer summit online in mid-October 2020. Topics covered included the Fall 2020 product lineup, new features in Roku OS 9.4, channel certification updates, and app growth and monetization strategies.
  • Automated app testing: This video demonstrates the Roku automated app testing software. It provides a brief overview of the technology stack, and it shows how both the Roku WebDriver and Robot Framework Library can be used for state-driven app UI automation testing.
  • Managing user access: This video explains how to use the User Management feature in the Developer Dashboard to give team members the authority to take administrative actions based on their respective organizational roles.