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Moving Through It: Getting An Application Reviewed

In this episode, PJ sits down with Serah Njambi Kiburu, Senior Developer Advocate at Spotify and Accessibility Advocate. The pair discuss why we should all consider the question of accessibility more stringently and frequently, how accessibility is baked into [Spotify for Developers](https://developer.spotify.com), and what we can learn from the world around us to adopt accessibility principles in our everyday work. Check it out!

Spotify For Developers: On the Air - Episode 4 - All Things Accessible with Serah Njambi Kiburu

Spotify for Developers: On the Air! is a podcast from the Developer Experience team at Spotify. We will discuss best practices, learn how to best use the [Spotify developer portal](https://developer.spotify.com), and what things developers are thinking about as they build, create, and expand their knowledge. 
In this episode, host [PJ Hagerty](https://twitter.com/aspleenic) sits down with fellow teammate [Jo Franchetti](https://twitter.com/ThisIsJoFrank) to discuss her recent work on the new Spotify Web API TypeScript SDK. They get into the importance of ensuring developer understanding when working with an API and platform while also delving into the importance of mental health, taking care of yourself, and how sharing the story of your journey can often help others find their way to the path.
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Spotify For Developers: On the Air - Episode 3 - Writing an SDK and talking Mental Health with Jo Franchetti

In this episode, PJ sits down with Spotify for Developers DX teammate Gu Jian. The pair discuss design and seeing UI and UX in everything around the world.
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Spotify For Developers: On the Air - Episode 2 - UI UX in all the Things with Gu Jian

Spotify for Developers: On the Air! is a podcast from the Developer Experience team at Spotify. We will discuss best practices, learn how to best use the [Spotify developer portal](https://developer.spotify.com), and what things developers are thinking about as they build, create, and expand their knowledge. 
Each guest will bring their unique perspective on topics in the developer space, allowing for an encyclopedic look at many different topics in the world of technology and how we build things.

Welcome to Spotify For Developers: On the Air!

Today, we launched some upgrades to the website that we are really excited about. The look and feel of Spotify for Developers has received a major update. Read on to learn more about what’s changed.

Introducing the new Spotify for Developers

There are thousands of developers building great Spotify experiences — who don’t actually work at Spotify. From smart speakers to game consoles to car infotainment systems, how do we support this diverse, creative community building on top of the Spotify platform? Along with providing APIs, SDKs, and other developer tools, it starts with something even more fundamental: listening to and understanding their needs. That’s where our developer advocates come in.

Your Very Own Developer Advocate

We are pleased to share our new accessibility guide, written to help third-party developers level up accessibility in the applications and experiences they build with Spotify’s APIs and SDKs.

Introducing Spotify's Guide for Developing Accessible Applications

We will be disabling access to libspotify on May 16, 2022. After that date, integrations that still use libspotify will stop working.

Sunset of libspotify on May 16, 2022

We are excited to announce that Spotify Ads API documentation is now available on the Spotify Developer portal.

The Ads API is now on Spotify for Developers

Today we’re introducing the iFrame API, a new way to integrate Spotify podcast content into your website.

Introducing the iFrame API

Today we are announcing the deprecation of the Spotify Follow Button.

Deprecation of the Spotify Follow Button

Today we are excited to announce that the Web Playback SDK is moving out of beta.

Web Playback SDK is out of beta!

Third-party apps are an essential part of the Spotify experience. From playlist management software to social listening experiences, thousands of important apps connect to the Web API every day. Since we launched the Spotify Developer Platform, we have seen developers worldwide use our APIs to create apps, integrations or use it as a learning platform to learn new skills. We love seeing all the different apps, projects and integrations, and we want to continue supporting and encouraging this. At Spotify, we continue to focus on improving the user experience, quality, and safety of the third-party apps that our users install. To support these efforts, we are launching three changes to our platform to help developers build better apps for the Spotify community.


Improving the developer and user experience for third-party apps

Developer Day at Spotify is a three-hour online event for all developers interested in Spotify’s open developer platform


Developer Day at Spotify, March 25th

Spotify’s Web API engineers do their best to keep the Web API online. Occasionally though, the API does experience downtime and degraded service. We know that outages have an impact on apps that rely on the Web API, and so today, we are launching the [Web API status page](https://status.spotify.dev/): a new website with up-to-date information about ongoing API incidents.


Introducing the Web API status page

Apps that make requests to the [Spotify Web API](/documentation/web-api/) rely on OAuth 2.0: a system that helps users authorize third-apps to access Spotify data. Since 2014, Spotify has supported three OAuth flows: the implicit grant flow, the authorization code flow, and the client credentials flow. Today, we are excited to announce that Spotify is offering support for the Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) extension to the OAuth 2.0 authorization code flow. PKCE makes it easier for developers to build mobile and desktop apps that require permission from Spotify users.


Create native mobile and desktop apps with Spotify using PKCE

Getting help with building Spotify apps just got easier. Today, we're introducing the [Spotify for Developers community forum](https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/bd-p/Spotify_Developer), a new home for conversations about developing software on the Spotify platform. This forum is the place to ask questions about Spotify developer tools, share feedback on the platform, and connect with other developers who are building on the Spotify API.


The Spotify for Developers forum is now open

Today we are excited to announce the launch of our new Podcast APIs, a set of API features that allow developers to build podcast experiences for Spotify users. You can use the Podcast APIs to search Spotify’s podcast catalog, programmatically follow or unfollow podcasts, and fetch information about episodes and podcast shows. Read on for more information about using the Podcast APIs in your app.


Search, browse and follow podcasts using the new Podcast APIs

The Spotify mobile SDKs allow developers to create iOS and Android apps that interact with Spotify. We’re excited to announce that apps using our mobile SDKs can now connect to Spotify while a device is offline. This feature makes it possible for mobile apps to control playback and authenticate a Spotify user when they are without a network connection. Read on to learn more about how to implement offline authentication for your platform.


New: Build offline Spotify experiences using our iOS and Android SDKs

Last year, we announced that Spotify will move away from supporting our old streaming SDK in favor of a solution that enables both Spotify Free and Premium users to utilize playback controls in a third party context. We launched our new mobile SDKs in September 2018, and also took our iOS SDK out of beta.


The public repo of the old Spotify mobile streaming SDKs will shut down Nov 1st 2019

We have released a new version of the iOS SDK, version 1.0.2, which you can find [here](https://github.com/spotify/ios-sdk).


Update to our iOS SDK

Earlier this week, we made improvements to our developer platform offering for iOS and Android. We really appreciate your support of our developer platform and hope that these improvements make you excited to integrate Spotify into your mobile app.

Updates to our Mobile Developer Platform

You can now use the Spotify Connect Web API to start playing tracks from any position using the [Start a User's Playback](/documentation/web-api/reference/start-a-users-playback) endpoint.

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