Launching iMessage on Spotify

This week, a project me and my friends here in San Francisco have been working on finally went live. The Spotify iMessage App Extension.

This app extension let’s you search for songs, send them to friends, and then play short 30 sec clips.

I know it doesn’t look like much – but it was a lot of work! You’ve got just the basic functionality of the App itself. You’ve got error handling. How to handle going off line. Analytics. Authorization. The expand and collapse interaction of iMessage. Nasty bugs. And the requirement to support both portrait and landscape orientations too (thank you UIStackView).

You don’t launch something like this without a lot of help. And I want to thank:

• Saurabh Verma
• Samuel Kohonen
• David Ehrmann
• Matt Montag
• Sonny Chen
• Jon Yeo
• Kevin Mindeguia
• Kristian Lindwall
• Jacob Schulman
• Lisa_Kleinsorge
• Kevin Hutchinson
• Alva
• Daniel Persson
• Dan Flemming

And my partner in crime, with whom this all started as a Spotify hackweek project, Joseph Baena.

Without them none of this would have worked.
So thank you team.
Onwards and upwards.
Looking forward to iterating more on this great platform!

Oh. And we are hiring! So if you are a mobile iOS or Android engineer, and have always wanted to work a great team in the great San Francisco Bay area, go checkout our job listings here and see if you’d like to join the band.

Links

• TechCrunch – Spotify launches an iMessage app for texting songs to friends
• Engadget – Spotify’s iMessage app shares clips of your favorite songs
• The Verge – Spotify’s new iMessage app lets you share 30-second song previews with friends
• The Next Web – Spotify finally lands in the iMessage App Store
• Macrumors –
  Spotify Introduces iMessage App With Search Function for Sharing Music With Friends
• Billboard – Spotify iMessage App Allows Users to Share Songs Without Leaving the Conversation
• Product Hunt