Launching Spotify to background on mobile device and disabling users media controls.

[SolidJuho]

Hello,
I was looking at Web API but I couldn't find how to do following actions in my mobile project.
Project is done in Unity/C#/.NET

- Launch Spotify automatically to background.
Currently user has to manually launch Spotify manually and that's very bad user experience.

- Disabling user's media controls.
When app is active, I don't want users to be able to skips songs, as songs should be same for all online users.

[Peter_Schorn]

If you don't see what you're looking for at here, then it's not possible, at least with the web API. It's that simple. 

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- Launch Spotify automatically to background.
Currently user has to manually launch Spotify manually and that's very bad user experience. 

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What Spotify client do you want to launch (e.g., the iOS app, the desktop application, the web player? And what platform is this app for (iOS, macOS, a website)?

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- Disabling user's media controls.
When app is active, I don't want users to be able to skips songs, as songs should be same for all online users.

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You cannot disable media controls on a native Spotify client.

[SolidJuho]

Hi, Thanks for replying.
I want to launch Spotify on the same device as the app is running.
Important thing is that I want it to launch to background to easy off users experience.

App is cross platform, so it would be Android and iOS. 
But if you can just tell me how to do that in iOS that would be more than enough. 🙂

[Peter_Schorn]

Use the iOS/android SDK. See https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/ios/.