This document discusses Spotify's transition to a "consistent, thin, and dumb" approach to app development. It summarizes Spotify's user and song numbers, the challenges of their previous iOS client, and their shift to a backend-driven model with modular organization. This allows for innovation, scaling, and a unified user experience across platforms through frameworks like GLUE. The document endorses frameworks as "machines" and sharing knowledge and success.

1. Consistent,
Thin and
Dumb
Hector Zarate
(@iOSCowboy)

2. Spotify Numbers
58 markets Over 30 million Songs75 million Active Users"
(20 million Subscribers)

3. iOS Client Numbers
40 monthly contributors 0.5 million lines of code millions of users

4. Visually Inconsistent"
Thick"
Client-Based

5. Consistent"
Light "
Backend Driven

6. Consistent"
Thin"
Dumb

7. ?
2013
2015
2025

8. 1. Scale

9. 2. Innovation

10. 3. Modular Organization

11. 3. Modular Organization
Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover Genre

12. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

13. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

14. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

15. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

16. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

17. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

18. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

19. Radio Running Album
Ads Equalizer Inbox

21. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

22. Radio Running Album Show
Player Browse Artist Playlist
Social Conce
CarChart
scover GenreAds Equalizer Inbox Podcast

23. GLUE(Global Language, Unified Experience)

24. FontsColorsMetrics

28. UIKit
GLUE.framework
Radio Running Albums Shows

29. UIKit
GLUE.framework
Radio Running Albums Shows

31. Consistent

32. Consistent"
Thin "
Dumb

37. ITEM"
!
- title!
- subtitle!
- image
SPACE"
!
- title
1 nblocks
BLOCK"
!
- title!
- renderType
1 nitems

39. space

41. block
block

43. item item

61. GLUE.framework
Radio Running Albums Shows
Browse
?

62. GLUE.framework
Radio
Running Albums Shows Browse
?

63. GLUE.framework
Radio
Running Albums Shows Browse
Ceramic

64. << Block >><< Space >> << Item >>

65. << Block >><< Space >> << Item >>
<< Item, ItemWithIcon
>>
<< Item, ItemWithMetadata >>

68. GLUE.framework
Radio
Running Albums Shows Browse
CeramicThin

69. Consistent"
Thin "
Dumb

70. View Model
View Controller
View
Model

71. View Model
View Controller
View
Model

72. View Model
View Controller
View
Model
Backend Client

73. GLUE.framework
Radio
Running Albums Shows Browse
Ceramic

74. GLUE.framework
Radio
Running Albums Shows Browse
Ceramic
Hubs

75. View Model
View Controller
View
Model
Backend Client
Dumb

76. Consistent"
Thin"
Dumb

77. Демо!

78. yey!

79. yey!

80. yey!

81. yey!

82. yey!

83. Risks

84. Risks

85. Risks

86. GLUE.framework
Radio
Running Albums Shows Browse
Ceramic
Hubs

87. Frameworks as Machines

88. Frameworks as Machines

89. Final Words
1. Single Purpose"
2. Vision"
3. Share That Toy"
4. Marketing"
5. Shared Success

90. Спасибо!

91. Вопросы?
Hector Zarate "
@iOSCowboy"
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spotify.com/jobs