Spotify-Streamer

This project was an assignment for Udacity's Android Nanodegree.

What it does

The project base requirements were to design a phone and tablet app that:

• Queried Spotify's WebAPI to retrieve Top 10 tracks for a particular artist.
• Plays 30-second preview of selected track
• Provide play, pause, previous and next buttons
• Allow scrub bar modification (timeline slider)
• Provide a "Now Playing" button to view player dialog
• Share playing track
• Play track remotely through a URL
• Change country Top 10 track reference
• Provide play, pause, previous and next buttons as a notification
• Provide play, pause, previous and next buttons on screen lock
• Ability to enable/disable notification in dropdown and lock screen

How I built it

• Spotify Web API: retrieves album/artist metadata (i.e. name, title, artwork and audio URL)
• Retrofit : HTTP communications
• Picasso: image download
• Android Mediaplayer: audio playback controls

What I learned

• Android Layouts (linear, relative, frame)
• Activity and fragments
• Android Services
• Andorid Intents
• Android Broadcasting
• Menus and preferences
• Gradle

Built With

• android-studio
• java