One of the best things about Boxee is how simple it is to build a Boxee app. In this post, I’m going to show you how to do that with a single XML file. Don’t dismiss this method of building a Boxee app, as some of the bigger content providers have opted for this over [...][...]
Archive for December, 2010
December 13th, 2010 - 11:14 PM § in Lessons
Building a Roku Channel – Part 1
Feel like creating your own channel on the roku video player? It’s not hard! You’ll just need a decent familiarity with editing text files and possibly some comfort with unix. Or discomfort, but as long as you know what I’m talking about, keep reading! I’m personally very com[...]
December 13th, 2010 - 1:53 AM § in Lessons
Building a Boxee App – Part 1
In this series we’ll take a look at creating a Boxee app. At the end of the series, I’ll post an archive for you to use as the starting point of a Boxee application. Boxee is an excellent OpenSource settop box platform. The history of Boxee is an interesting one, rising from XBMC which t[...]
December 13th, 2010 - 1:15 AM § in Hacking
Boxee dev
Trying my hand at Boxee app development. It’s fun but the documentation is more of a discovery. So many questions left unanswered. Here are the questions that took some exploring: Question: Why can’t I get the App Title to show? Answer: If the thumbnail URL is missing or incorrect, the t[...]