What is an API??

Question

Its just a programming interfacr or more?? And how it works......??

Answer 1

An API is simply an agreed upon programming interface that one party agrees to allow other software to use. APIs can take on many forms.

Answer 2

API : Application Programming Interface .. Its like an already written function for development which makes programming much more easier. Pass in your values and you will get a return .

Answer 3

application program interface, it act as the intermediate and help you to do your task in a easy way

Answer 4

ASPI for SCSI device interfacing
Cocoa and Carbon for the Macintosh
DirectX for Microsoft Windows
EHLLAPI
Java APIs
ODBC for Microsoft Windows
OpenAL cross-platform sound API
OpenCL cross-platform API for general-purpose computing for CPUs & GPUs
OpenGL cross-platform graphics API
OpenMP API that supports multi-platform shared memory multiprocessing programming in C, C++ and Fortran on many architectures, including Unix and Microsoft Windows platforms.
Server Application Programming Interface (SAPI)
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)

Answer 5

Thnx.. Can u give one of is form..?? ... Itheoritically its ok.. Bt practically can't understand it till now...

Answer 6

In what programming language do you need a form ?