Spotify Swiftly

Why?

I've been learning (and loving) Swift and am, as of March 2015, working on (and also very much enjoying) my iOS Developer Nanodegree on Udacity...

I plan to build a couple of apps that talk to Spotify so I decided to port Spotify's iOS SDK tutorial to Swift (for the purpose of honing my Swift skills as I start learning and using the SDK).

This isn't by any means the first example of this... I referred to, learned from and recommend that you also check out neonichu's CoolSpot project on GitHub (and am sure that there are also other good examples that I haven't found yet out there).

How?

1. git clone the project

2. The project uses CocoaPods to manage its dependencies so if you don't already have it, go to CocoaPods' Getting Started page and follow the instructions there

3. Right now, the only dependency that isn't available in your cloned project directory is Spotify's SDK. To download and install the project's dependencies, cd into the project's root directory and execute the pod install command

4. Double click Spotify Swiftly.xcworkspace in Finder to open the project in Xcode

5. Spotify's iOS SDK tutorial includes excellent instructions about how to set up your token swap service locally as well as on Heroku. Follow these instructions to set up your token swap service.

   By the way, I've included the contents of my config.ru file (which is used by Heroku when you deploy the token swap service there) below in case you're wondering what it looks like - The SpotifyTokenSwap example uses a Procfile and Heroku currently recommends that you use a config.ru file instead...

My config.ru file require './spotify_token_swap'

      run Sinatra::Application

6. In Xcode, find the kClientId constant's declaration and replace your-client-id with your client ID

At this point, you should have a token swap service running and the app should be ready to run!

Note: If you don't have a Premium Account on Spotify, you'll receive the following error when when you run the app and log in (because you have to have a premium account to play a track via the SDK):

An error occured while enabling playback: Error Domain=com.spotify.ios-sdk.playback Code=9 "The operation requires a Spotify Premium account."...