| Closure of Spotify Apps Submissions |
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| Spotify closed the submission process for new apps on the 24th of March 2014. You can still develop apps using this tutorial, but your app will not be released through the App Finder and will thus not be accessible to other users. Please read the announcement on our Developer News site for more information. |
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.
- Sign up for a developer account on Spotify by logging in and agreeing to the terms of use.
- Create the Spotify folder if it doesn't exist already:
~/Spotify(Mac OS X and Linux) orMy Documents\Spotify(Windows). - Open the Spotify folder.
- Run
git clone git://github.com/spotify/apps-tutorial.git api-tutorial. - Download the desktop client of Spotify.
- Open the desktop client and type
spotify:app:api-tutorialin the Search box. - If the app doesn't load, restart Spotify completely and type again
spotify:app:api-tutorialin the Search box.
- Creating your manifest file
- Handling arguments, creating pages and navigational tabs
- Dragging and dropping content into an app
- Show "Share" popup
- 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
- Get metadata from an artist, album, track, or playlist
- Returning metadata with a given search query
- Get a user's top tracks
- Star and unstar a track
- Authenticate a user with Facebook
- Spotify Developer Site where you can find all the information about the Sporify Developer Tools and subscribe to the newsletter.
- API Reference
- Integration Guidelines
- Spotify-tagged questions on StackOverflow
- @SpotifyPlatform on Twitter
Your feedback is welcome! Feel free to create issues and send pull requests.