iPhone App Development: Create a Spotify Clone

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Develop and test a music backend by uploading tracks to a server via cPanel file manager, creating public_html access, and verifying playback to support a streaming app.

Learn how to automate a php script with cron, using cPanel, to run a music scan script on a schedule and optimize resource usage.

Compare free and paid servers, then use cPanel to upload files, create a music database, index MP3s with a PHP script, and automate with cron on Linux.

Learn to build a bottom media bar in storyboard, add a play/pause button with image assets, and constrain it across devices using leading, trailing, bottom constraints.

Enable background audio and implement lock screen controls by configuring the info.plist, setting the audio session to playback, and becoming first responder to handle remote control events.

Create a file to retrieve music from a remote database, fetch data via web calls, build a song model with name, id, likes, and plays, and display a songs list.

Create a PHP interface to MySQL to fetch the music list using get_music.php that connects to the database, queries the music table by id desc, and outputs the results.

Define a song class to store downloaded items, including id, name, likes, and plays, with an initializer that converts incoming string data to integers and accessor methods for each property.

Parse a retrieved string into an array of songs by splitting on the star delimiter, mapping items to song objects, and printing names after retrieval.

Fetches data from a database using a php interface, retrieves data through in-app NSURLConnection, and stores each song in a Song class to build the list.

Develop a functional music player that starts an mp3 when a list item is selected, using didSelectRowAtIndexPath to trigger playback, and display the now playing track name in a label.

Remove the trailing .mp3 from song names by trimming the last four characters in the view controller's swift file and updating the cell label; optionally add a getCleanName method.

Add an artist column to the music database, extract artist names from ID3 tags, and update the app to display artist information with a new label in the UI.

Report the number of plays to a database to satisfy streaming license requirements and keep track of plays for music licensing.

Add artist information to tracks by including it in track name, update the index to store it in the remote database, and report plays for statistics and licensing.

Add a plus-one like button that updates the database and a share to Facebook feature with prefixed text, a thumbnail, and a download link for marketing when a song plays.

Add a like button beside the play bar, wire its action to increment the current song's like count via a php script, track the current id, and update the database.

Learn to make apps social by implementing liking and sharing, including liking a track in your own database and sharing via the ios compose view to Facebook.

Charge upfront only for apps likely to gain traction; offer free downloads to grow users. Monetize with Amazon affiliates, in-app ads, and paid play extensions (100 plays for 79p).

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