Spotify Apps API Tutorial

This is a Spotify App that explains how to make a Spotify App.

For API Guidelines, click here.

Topics covered

Getting started

• Creating your manifest file
• Handling arguments and creating navigational tabs
• Dragging and dropping content into an app (coming soon)
• Show "Share" popup

UI

• Using standard components for buttons
• Track-listing components (coming soon)
• Using the pager element (coming soon)

Playing music

• Play a single song
• Play a list of songs
• Get the currently-playing track
• Create a play/pause button with an HTML element
• Skip to the next or previous track
• Get a user's top tracks

Searching

• Returning all tracks with a given search query

Playlists

• Add a song to a playlist
• Get songs from a playlist URL
• Subscribe to a playlist
• Showing a playlist mosiac image

Interacting with Facebook

• Authenticate a user with Facebook
• Get a user's listening history from Facebook

Experimental & Unsupported

• Talking to Twitter
• Create an EchoNest radio station
• Display a Polymaps object
• Template

Installation

1. Sign up for a developer account on Spotify
2. Open Terminal, mkdir ~/Spotify
3. cd ~/Spotify
4. git clone git@github.com:spotify/apps-tutorial.git
5. Download the latest version of Spotify
6. Open Spotify and type "spotify:app:tutorial" in the search bar

Your feedback is welcome! Please email mager@spotify.com.