Do mobile apps use APIs?

Many of the most popular web and cloud companies use REST APIs for their applications, including Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Google .

Nearly every mobile app uses APIs . This includes every type of mobile app from social media apps to banking apps and beyond. And mobile APIs are an important part of your mobile app strategy.6 Ağu 2019

As you see in figure, every mobile and digital watch make use of APIs to run their native applications by making a request to web server for getting app relevant data . And web server will send a response of that request via API response. So it makes each mobile app works smoothly without getting heavy.

An API, or application programming interface, is a set of rules that define how applications or devices can connect to and communicate with each other. A REST API is an API that conforms to the design principles of the REST, or representational state transfer architectural style .