A tutorial on how to use a web api from within an Android app. We discuss JSON, XML and Android's AsyncTask.

The Awareness API was introduced at Google I/O 2016 and provides a method for apps to get a more accurate idea of what's happening around it.

Telephony manager, which is part of the Android application framework, provides a telephony API to user applications. It consists of the android.telephony and android.telephony.gsm Java packages.

WeatherKit is not an app itself — rather, it's an API (or a framework, in Apple lingo) that's meant to replace the Dark Sky API Apple has deprecated and is planning to kill off completely by 2023.

A new update heading to Android later this year means that apps that are over two years old will need to update their API target in order to stay accessible on newer devices. Currently, Android ...

The upcoming changes to Reddit's API will kill popular third-party Android apps, such as Sync for Reddit and Reddit is Fun.

YouTube might rely on the Android WebView Media Integrity API to help curb the usage of modified ad-free YouTube apps.

Web Integrity pivots to Android, could permanently kill YouTube Vanced-style apps.

WebSideStory's applications exemplify the Web 3.0 notion of layering functionality on top of raw API feeds. This is the shape of enterprise applications to come.