/apps-tutorial

A Spotify App that contains working examples of the use of Spotify Apps API

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Spotify Apps API Tutorial

This is a Spotify App that shows useful code snippets that can help you build Spotify Apps. It uses the most recent version of the Spotify Apps API.

Installation

  1. Sign up for a developer account on Spotify by logging in and agreeing to the terms of use.
  2. Create the Spotify folder if it doesn't exist already: ~/Spotify (Mac OS X and Linux) or My Documents\Spotify (Windows).
  3. Open the Spotify folder.
  4. Run git clone git://github.com/spotify/apps-tutorial.git api-tutorial.
  5. Download the latest version of Spotify.
  6. Open Spotify and type "spotify:app:api-tutorial" in the search bar (restart Spotify completely in case it doesn't find the App at first).

Topics covered

Getting started

  • Creating your manifest file
  • Handling arguments, creating pages and navigational tabs
  • Dragging and dropping content into an app

UI

  • Show "Share" popup

Playing music

  • Play a single track
  • Play a list of tracks
  • Get the currently playing track
  • Create a play/pause button with an HTML element
  • Skip to the next or previous track

Searching

  • Get metadata from an artist, album, track, or playlist
  • Returning metadata with a given search query

Interacting with user data

  • Get a user's top tracks
  • Star and unstar a track

Facebook

  • Authenticate a user with Facebook

More information

Your feedback is welcome! Feel free to create issues and send pull requests.