Roku SDK

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Bounty Amount: $2,000

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Enhancement Info

Description

Roku is one of the largest OTT device platforms by distribution. That means there are a ton of people using Roku. But there isn’t a good way to track customer events from Roku applications and unify that data with the rest of your customer data. So you can’t really know how usage in your Roku app impacts customer behavior, or, if you can, you had to do a lot of work to get there.

We want to make it easier to collect and use customer data from Roku with this implementation.

Implementation

This implementation will be in a new repo under RudderStack’s GitHub organization. The SDK can be similar to the Segment implementation found here. The SDK needs to implement:

1. A way to automatically catch actions in a Roku application and send them to RudderStack as events.
2. A way to track custom events from within a Roku application. Another example of Roku instrumentation is from New Relic here. It may be worthwhile to review their implementation in addition to Segment’s.

Nice to have features

1. It would be great if the SDK’s implemented as much of our JavaScript SDK here as is reasonable.