The Importance of APIs in the Mobile App Era Have you ever thought how a transportation app like- Uber or Lyft lets you track the real-time location of the drivers coming to pick up you on the Google Map, enable you to make payment in no time with PayPal, make chatting possible while riding, or allow you to share the ride with your friend on Facebook, all using the same app.
Certainly, Google Map, PayPal, and Facebook in the above example are the products of leading tech giants, so how the apps that we use daily, are able to ofer these services? The top players actually provide the web services and using the API, the developers can incorporate the same services on the mobile app. WHAT THE HECK IS AN API (APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE
API is the foundational technology working behind every mobile application development companieswhich allow developers to access and use the existing code of information in another app leveraging an API key.