In this article, we discuss how to use a web API from within your Android app, to fetch data for your users. There are two major methods for retrieving data from most web services, XML or JSON.

To create a more-standardized experience for detecting screenshots, Android 14 introduces a privacy-preserving screenshot detection API. This API lets apps register callbacks on a per-activity basis.

The company's new API guidelines, which go into effect on July 1st, will kill all popular third-party Reddit clients. That is unless they are ready to pay millions of dollars in fees every month.

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 ...