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API overview

API overview

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API overview

- [Instructor] Application programming interface or API is an interface that provides a way for us to communicate with an object. Whether this object is physical like a TV remote control or a software such as clicking a button to play a song. An application programming interface is a set of definitions and protocols for apps or services to communicate with each other. It acts as a bridge between them. It also has the details of how something works. We don't need to know the underlying code and logic. We just need to know what we have to do, what method we need to call to implement the desired functionality. We use APIs to extend the functionality of our application so that we don't have to code everything ourselves. One of the features of APIs is that they are standardized. They follow a common set of guidelines to make sure that they are consistent in their design and implementation. There are different sets of standards…

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