The Spotify iOS framework allows your application to interact with the Spotify app running in the background on a user's device. Capabilities include authorizing, getting metadata for the currently playing track and context, as well as issuing playback commands.
The Spotify iOS SDK is a set of lightweight objects that connect with the Spotify app and let you control it while all the heavy lifting of playback is offloaded to the Spotify app itself. The Spotify app takes care of playback, networking, offline caching and OS music integration, leaving you to focus on your user experience. Moving from your app to the Spotify app and vice versa is a streamlined experience where playback and metadata always stay in sync.
Playback, networking, and caching is all accounted for by the Spotify app
Works offline and online and does not require Web API calls to get metadata for player state
Allows authentication through the Spotify app so users don't have to type in their credentials
Filing Bugs
We love feedback from the developer community, so please feel free to file missing features or bugs over at our issue tracker.
Make sure you search existing issues before creating new ones.
The Spotify iOS framework requires a deployment target of iOS 9 or higher. The
following architectures are supported: armv7, armv7s and arm64 for devices,
i386 and x86_64 for the iOS Simulator. Bitcode is also supported.
Components
Models
SPTAppRemoteAlbum
SPTAppRemoteArtist
SPTAppRemoteLibraryState
SPTAppRemotePlaybackRestrictions
SPTAppRemotePlaybackOptions
SPTAppRemotePlayerState
SPTAppRemoteTrack
SPTAppRemoteContentItem
SPTAppRemoteUserCapabilities
SPTAppRemoteImageRepresentable
SPTConfiguration
SPTAppRemote
The main entry point to connect to the Spotify app and retrieve API components. Use this to establish, monitor, and terminate the connection.
SPTAppRemotePlayerAPI
Send playback related commands such as:
Play track by URI
Resume/pause playback
Skip forwards and backwards
Seek to position
Set shuffle on/off
Request player state
Request player context
Subscribe to player state
SPTAppRemoteImagesAPI
Fetch an image for a SPTAppRemoteImageRepresentable
SPTAppRemoteUserAPI
Fetch/subscribe/set user-related data such as:
Fetch and/or subscribe to SPTAppRemoteUserCapabilities
Determine if a user can play songs on demand (Premium vs Free)
Add/remove/check if a song is in a user's library
SPTAppRemoteContentAPI
Fetch recommended content for the user.
How App Remote calls work
When you interact with any of the App Remote APIs you pass in a SPTAppRemoteCallback block that gets invoked with either the expected result item or an NSError if the operation failed. The block is triggered after the command was received by the Spotify app (or if the connection could not be made).
Here is an example using the SPTRemotePlayerAPI to skip a song:
We provide a few sample projects to help you get started with the iOS Framework in the DemoProjects folder. See the Readme in the DemoProjects folder for more information on what each sample does.
Authentication and Authorization
To communicate with the Spotify app your application will need to get a user's permission to control playback first by using built-in authorization for App Remote. To do that you will need to request authorization view when connecting to Spotify. The framework will automatically request the app-remote-control scope and show the auth view if user hasn't agreed to it yet.
This tutorial leads you step-by-step through the creation of a simple app that uses the Spotify iOS SDK to play an audio track and subscribe to player state. It will walk through the authorization flow.
Prepare Your Environment
Follow these steps to make sure you are prepared to start coding.
Download the Spotify iOS framework from the "Clone or download" button at the top of this page, and unzip it.
Install the latest version of Spotify from the App Store onto the device you will be using for development. Run the Spotify app and login or sign up.
Note: A Spotify Premium account will be required to play a track on-demand for a uri.
Register Your Application. You will need to register your application at My Applications and obtain a client ID. When you register your app you will also need to whitelist a redirect URI that the Spotify app will use to callback to your app after authorization.
Add Dependencies
Add the SpotifyiOS.framework or SpotifyiOS.xcframework to your Xcode project.
In your info.plist add your redirect URI you registered at My Applications. You will need to add your redirect URI under "URL types" and "URL Schemes". Be sure to set a unique "URL identifier" as well. More info on URL Schemes
Add #import <SpotifyiOS/SpotifyiOS.h> to your source files to import necessary headers.
Check if Spotify is Active
If a user is already using Spotify, but has not authorized your application, you can use the following check to prompt them to
start the authorization process.
[SPTAppRemote checkIfSpotifyAppIsActive:^(BOOL active) {
if (active) {
// Prompt the user to connect Spotify here
}
}];
Authorize Your Application
To be able to use the playback control part of the SDK the user needs to authorize your application. If they haven't, the connection will fail with a No token provided error. To allow the user to authorize your app, you can use the built-in authorization flow.
Initialize SPTConfiguration with your client ID and redirect URI.
Initiate the authentication flow (for other ways to detect if Spotify is installed, as well as attributing installs, please see our Content Linking Guide).
// Note: A blank string will play the user's last song or pick a random one.BOOL spotifyInstalled = [self.appRemote authorizeAndPlayURI:@"spotify:track:69bp2EbF7Q2rqc5N3ylezZ"];
if (!spotifyInstalled) {
/* * The Spotify app is not installed. * Use SKStoreProductViewController with [SPTAppRemote spotifyItunesItemIdentifier] to present the user * with a way to install the Spotify app.*/
}
Configure your AppDelegate to parse out the accessToken in application:openURL:options: and set it on the SPTAppRemote connectionParameters.
Why does music need to be playing to connect with SPTAppRemote?
Music must be playing when you connect with SPTAppRemote to ensure the Spotify app is not suspended in the background. iOS applications can only stay active in the background for a few seconds unless they are actively doing something like navigation or playing music.
Is SpotifyiOS.framework thread safe?
No, the framework currently expects to be called from the main thread. It will offload most of its work to a background thread internally but callbacks to your code will also occur on the main thread.
What if I need to authorize without starting playback?
There is an alternative authorization method. You can find more information about that here.
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