What is an Api? what does it do?

Answer 1

API is an acronym for Application Programming Interface. These interfaces are what allow software solutions to communicate with each other. For example: "If you give me this instruction, I will perform this action, or return this information". For instance lets say I want to make an app that gets music data to make a playlist, or user name, etc.. I can use Spotify API which are little commands that returns the data from Spotify servers.

Answer 2

Google it.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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