Spotify Lite was initially built on an entirely different playback stack than the regular Android app. With these challenges in mind, we decided to build a new separate app from scratch, giving us the ability to quickly iterate, obtain feedback, and innovate freely. Spotify Lite: Spotify’s first separate appĬreating a more performant and smaller version of the Spotify app proved to be more challenging than we liked, as the codebase hadn’t been modularized. We were building on all the work, experience, and knowledge that came before us, giving us the ability to focus on finding solutions for our users. It should be noted that we wouldn’t have achieved success had it not been for the existing tooling that we were able to reuse - tools for enabling recommendations, playback, search, browsing, and instrumentation. Only then were we able to come up with an optimal, performant solution. It was absolutely critical to design Spotify Lite with our users in mind, and to experiment and iterate on the streaming experience for cases when devices have poor connectivity or are completely offline. This allowed us to roll out an MVP product in record time.īefore building the new app, the Spotify Lite team - a cross-functional mix of insights, design, product, and engineering - travelled to a number of locations where Lite would be available in order to experience the network and device constraints firsthand. But for Spotify Lite, we formed a single, autonomous team to fully own the entire process of designing, developing, and releasing the app. The main Spotify Music Android client is divided into multiple features, all owned by separate teams. Our mission was clear: we needed to make Spotify accessible to users with constrained resources, i.e., unreliable networks or phones with limited storage, memory, and low-resolution screens. Because of storage constraints, many of our potential users couldn’t install Spotify, and the ones that could weren’t getting the full “Spotify experience”. In 2017, we found that a significant portion of registrations in some of our fastest-growing markets were happening on Android devices much older than what we were used to seeing in North American and European markets. What if, for some users, the very best Spotify is a little less Spotify? Spotify Lite started as an experiment that had to be proven, both from a technical and a product-market fit perspective.
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