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APIs Advancement


What is API?

If you are new into computer programming and software development you’ve heard of or probably used a term “API“.
But What is an API ?  
The term API is an acronym and it stands for Application Programming Interface .It set of subroutine definitions and tools for building software.

Examples of API?

When you use an application on your smartphone and application connects to internet and send your data to server.The server retrieve the data and interprets it ,perform required action on it and send back to application. Application present retrieved data from server to you readable way.All of this happens via API.
An API lists a bunch of operations that developers can use, along with a description and details of what they do. The developer doesn’t necessarily need to know how, for example, an operating system builds and presents a “Save As” dialog box. They just need to know that it’s available for use in their app.
another example is,
Window ,MAC OS, Linux all provides Graphical user interface, button,check boxes etc,that are easy to click on. Without that you’d be left tediously typing  commands for every thing you want to do like back in the days when DOS ruled the world,Similarly, an API provides a simpler way for developers to interact with other kinds of software

API Advancements

Rest API


You’ve heard many people talking about Twitter API,Google API etc but they are actually talking about REST API.It stands for representational state transfer.
Now it doesn’t have to be the case but usually a REST API works pretty much the same way a website does,you make a call from a client to a server and you get data back over HTTP protocol. 
REST API compliant web services, database systems, and computer systems permit requesting systems to get robust access and redefine representations of web based resources by deploying a predefined set of stateless protocols and standard operations.
One of Examples of REST API is Instagram API.

The Instagram API allows your applications to retrieve user accounts, photos, tags and more!

Conversation APIs

The future of APIs are conversation APIs
Current APIs are set to naturally evolve toward conversation APIs, interfaces that perform searches and provide responses to queries using natural language via conversational user interfaces. Innovation depends on early adoption of APIs as a means of launching products, and the integration of an open developer community within work processes.
One of its examples is Google Assistant 

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