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Spotify SDK for iOS
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iOS 14 / Xcode12 / SwiftUI -> Quick Start #312

Open mcm-gr opened 3 years ago

mcm-gr commented 3 years ago

Hi there, I'm just getting started with figuring out how to integrate Spotify API into iOS 14 / Swift UI. However, I especially had a few troubles with Obj-C Linker Flag and AppDelegate which isn't available in current iOS anymore.   Is there any resource or sample project on a quick start with the current iOS 14 / XCode 12? Thank you Best, Marlon

mcm-gr commented 3 years ago

Anyone with an idea?

SamyTD commented 3 years ago

I have the same problem

tillhainbach commented 3 years ago

here you go: https://github.com/tillhainbach/SpotifyQuickStart

downdrown commented 2 years ago

@tillhainbach Thank you for the sample project, works like a charm. Could you eventually create a branch where you use the SPTSessionManager#initiateSession method instead of the SPTAppRemote.authorizeAndPlayURI?

ir-fuel commented 2 years ago

@downdrown that requires the use of a backend + it's worthless anyway to do it like that because of a bunch of missing features in the SDK

downdrown commented 2 years ago

@ir-fuel I would not have a problem to provide a proper backend. I just don't want to have the user to re-authorize the app everytime he/she uses it. Is there a way to do this without the token swap backend? If so are there any good examples? I am pretty new to iOS Development but I must say that the Spotify API feels a bit outdated and the documentation doesn't always seem to give me the anwers I'm looking for 😢

ir-fuel commented 2 years ago

@downdrown

Read this and you'll understand why you should not waste your time (like I have) in building a backend for this.

https://github.com/spotify/ios-sdk/issues/343#issuecomment-1004853819

downdrown commented 2 years ago

@ir-fuel That's funny, because I absolutely struggled with the same issues already. However there must be any way to authorize a 3rd party app without asking the user to re-authorize (I have installed such an 3rd party app that somehow must manage to do this). I'm absolutely with you regarding the effort Spotify put into this library. It kinda feels like a sidegig nobody really cares about. I think it's a little bit sad that such a "flagship corporation", like Spotify supposedly is, releases such libraries.

Well, enough grumbling. Did you somehow manage to let your users connect to Spotify without having to re-authorize every few hours or at every restart?

ir-fuel commented 2 years ago

No. You'll still see a ping-pong between your app and the Spotify app, but without a popup.

ir-fuel commented 2 years ago

And it's even worse than this. This SDK is worthless except for doing play/pause.

Imagine you start your app, Spotify is not playing, and you want the user to select a playlist for playback. Well for one, there is no such thing as a "playlist". Spotify doesn't want you to navigate your own stuff in a structured way. The non-deprecated call in the API is a list of "recommendations" as what they think suits you.

But that's not the worst. The worst is you can't even call this method without Spotify actually PLAYING A SONG. The excuse you'll find in this Github is that "it is Apple's fault" because they can't be sure the Spotify app is open in the background and the only way to be sure is to have a song playing. Well last time I checked Spotify also runs as a web player and there is absolutely no reason (except not willing to do it) to not pass these calls through a webservice to send back those lists (and hey, we have an access token thanks to that broken SessionManager). As long as you are not requesting actual playback it should work without going through the app.

The more I use this SDK the more I get frustrated with what a piece of badly documented junk it is. Incredible for a company of this size. Pretty sure there must be a few iOS developers @ HQ feeling frustrated because management doesn't let them make a decent SDK.

DamilolaDami commented 8 months ago

@ir-fuel is there any updates on this because its looking like its still very limited, although the nike run club app has integrated a very rich in app spotify experience. Not too sure how they achieved it

ir-fuel commented 8 months ago

No idea. Haven't been on this project for a long time.

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