Public APIs. Android Q will reduce its reliance on private APIs, says Google. Private APIs are generally available only to specific, approved organizations or developers.

Via the Awareness API an app can get data about what Android has inferred about what is going on. That way an app can tell when a person is in a moving vehicle, when a person is in a vehicle ...

This is all part of the Biometrics API that Google released with Android Nougat – it was the Fingerprint API, then updated to Biometrics API with the addition of Face Unlock on the Pixel 4 in 2019.

Google announced the launch of an all-new test environment: the Android Canary Release Channel. This channel serves to give developers a deeper dive into very early test builds (API) of Android and ...

The term API stands for application programming interface, a concept that applies everywhere from command-line tools to enterprise code, microservices, and cloud-native architectures.An API is an ...

APIs took on an almost whole new meaning in 2007 and 2008 with the arrival of the iPhone and Android smartphones. Apps for these platforms lean on APIs for a dazzling array of interactions, and ...

APIs generally perform a group of related tasks: for example, the “java.io” API, one of those at issue in Oracle’s suit, has pieces to read and write files, and to perform other file-related ...