What does API stand for

Question

just the expansion and some explanation

Answer 1

API are what you need to create programs like html pages. You can take control on audio in/ output, get data from gps, compass, accellerometer..

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API

Take a look to this site.

API are hard to use, but powerfull

Answer 2

it is really simple and useful, "Application Programming Interface", is a document giving you the standards to access a web-aplication... for example... to use Google maps in your website you need to know how to implement the maps (only the map) inside your code.... Google maps has a API for that. .. so if you want to know how to use it's application just take a look in it's API document and you gonna have all steps to implement it. hope u understood :)