topic Re: Web Playback SDK Support for additional browsers in Spotify for Developers

Web Playback SDK Support for additional browsers

noahtanenholtz — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:25:49 GMT

Plan

Free/Premium

Country

Device

(iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy 9, Macbook Pro late 2016)

Operating System

(iOS 10, Android Oreo, Windows 10,etc.)

My Question or Issue

When can we expect the Web Playback SDK to move out of Beta and be available for Safari for Mac and iOS, and Chrome/Firefox on Android and iOS?

Re: Web Playback SDK Support for additional browsers

_milena — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 09:26:48 GMT

Hi!

We are working hard to make it happen, however we cannot pin a date just yet. In particular for mobile browsers, as we already offer a native sdk for it.

Re: Web Playback SDK Support for additional browsers

anvolcano — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 12:45:04 GMT

I'd like to note that, as of May 2020, Spotify's own web player now supports Safari (including mobile Safari): https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/15/spotify-brings-back-safari-support-for-its-web-player/

It looks like all it would take to enable the Web Playback SDK for mobile Safari is to add FairPlay to the list of EME modules. Glad to hear support is on the roadmap, hope we see this soon 🙂

As an aside, it's a shame that Spotify doesn't use the Web Playback SDK for the official web player. Apple does this with MusicKit JS and the Apple Music web player, and I think it's a big reason why MusicKit JS is significantly more robust and reliable than the Spotify Web Playback SDK, and why MusicKit JS has feature parity with the playback available in their web app.

Re: Web Playback SDK Support for additional browsers

fantom1 — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:10:59 GMT

Hi,

You do not offer a native SDK for watchkit, Web Playback SDK on apple watch would be nice.