SpotDL Android

A SpotDL (python library) Android wrapper built with Kotlin

⬇️ DOWNLOAD SAMPLE APP

Download the sample app from the releases page.

Note that this app is just an example of the usage of this library. Many people asked me for new features, but I'm making a brand new app that will be fully customizable and with the ability to use custom commands along other things. This app is Spowlo. Currently it is only a Spotify mods downloader, but I'm doing a remake in a secondary branch in the same repo called "remake", where I'll be coding the new app that will have as principal functionality download songs (and also the mod downloader inside the app!). I'll keep you updated!

📣 DOCS IN PROGRESS!!

🎉 ANNOUNCEMENT: FIRST RELEASE

The library has came out, go to the releases page and see!

🔨 HOW IT WORKS

Installation

In Gradle:

• Step 1: Add the Jitpack repository to your build.gradle file at the project level.

allprojects {
    repositories {
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

• Step 2: Add the two library dependencies to your build.gradle file at app/module level.

dependencies {
  implementation "com.github.BobbyESP.spotdl-android:spotdl-android-library:$spotdllib_version"  
  implementation "com.github.BobbyESP.spotdl-android:spotdl-android-ffmpeg:$spotdllib_version"
}

Note You can add an extra property in Gradle for more organization/readability. In this example, as you can see, the property for putting the version of the library in the dependency declaration is called spotdllib_version and it should look like this:

 allprojects{
    extras{
      spotdllib_version = '0.1.0'
    }
  }

Jitpack sometimes works quite bad, so if the library downloading fails, please, change the version value to -SNAPSHOT

Things that are mandatory:

• You need to put the property android:extractNativeLibs="true" in your app's AndroidManifest.xml because the spotdl binary is already included in the library and Android can't open it without this permission.

Usage

Note Python 3.8 is already bundled in the library

• Step 1: The first thing you have to do is to initialize the library. It's highly recommended to do it in the onCreate function in your MainActivity or Application class.

try {
 SpotDL.getInstance().init(this@App) //Replace @App by the class you're using to initiate the lib.
} catch (e: Excpetion) {
 Log.e("SpotDLExample", "An error ocurreed while trying to initiate the library: $e")
}

FFMpeg

The library won't work without FFmpeg, so for using it, you have to add the second library that was told at the very top of the README

• You have to add to your dependecies declaration the next library:

dependencies {
  implementation "com.github.BobbyESP.spotdl-android:spotdl-android-ffmpeg:$spotdllib_version"
}

Now, you have to add this code to the last try-catch example:

FFMpeg.getInstance.init(this@App) //Same as before

Getting a final try-catch like this:

try {
 SpotDL.getInstance().init(this@App) //Replace @App by the class you're using to initiate the lib.
 FFMpeg.getInstance().init(this@App)
} catch (e: Excpetion) {
 Log.e("SpotDLExample", "An error ocurreed while trying to initiate the library: $e")
}

👷 CREDITS

• SpotDL for it's amazing python library for downloading any song/album from Spotify!

• xnetcat for helping me understand some parts/commands of Linux (XD), fix some bugs of this wrapper and for giving us all the files and binaries needed for working!

• JunkFood02 for helping me fix some bugs and explain me some code and functionality of the youtubedl-android library (in which this library is a little based on) and explaining me the storage framework of Android.

• youtubedl-android for some parts of the code of the library aswell as the inspiration for making this library (I really wanted to learn how to do one!)

⚖️ LICENSE

This project is under the MIT License, the same as SpotDL uses.