Creating your manifest file

The first step for building a Spotify App is to create a manifest.json file in your app's root directory. The example below is the most minimal manifest.json file needed for an app to work. For more information about the manifest.json file, please read our API guidelines.

The JSON

{
    "AppDescription": {
        "en": "A tutorial app for Spotify Apps API"
    },
    "AppIcon": {
        "36x18": "tutorial.png"
    },
    "AppName": {
        "en": "Spotify Sandbox"
     },
    "BundleIdentifier": "spotify-apps-sandbox",
    "BundleType": "Application",
    "BundleVersion": "0.1",
    "DefaultTabs": [
        {
            "arguments": "home_tab",
            "title": {
                "en": "Home"
            }
        },
        {
            "arguments": "secondary_tab",
            "title": {
                "en": "Secondary Tab"
            }
        }
    ],
    "RequiredInterface": 1,
    "RequiredPermissions": [
        "http://api.twitter.com",
        "https://graph.facebook.com",
         "https://gist.github.com/"
    ],
    "SupportedLanguages": [
        "en"
    ],
    "VendorIdentifier": "co.mager"
}