Grover AliceSocial media APIs work by connecting social media platforms with external tools and applications.
Category: What is API
To work with a computer, the average person does not need to understand how the computer processes information. The user only needs to click on icons in the interface. This is roughly how the API works.
Types of APIs
It is not easy to classify program interfaces, because there are thousands of them. In the context of mobile applications, we are most often talking about APIs written by backend programmers.
APIs in modern applications
To make things a bit clearer, let’s look at a couple of examples of using APIs for mobile applications.
For example, the API of the Twitter application gives the application information about the user’s tweets and followers.
API for mobile applications
If we explain the essence of API in simple words, it is an “intermediary” between the software on the user’s device and an external platform (server, database, etc.).