What is the difference between an SDK and API?

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Tiff In Tech

Ай бұрын

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@santoshparvatikar Ай бұрын

My standard toolkit has a wrench, screwdriver, pliers and hammer.

@Rod-qq9je Ай бұрын

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@shalomarputhasingh Ай бұрын

Exactly 😂😂

@mickdavies5647 26 күн бұрын

That's what I thought, this is the sort of answer that unfortunately is priceless in interviews and worthless everywhere else. In reality, any SDK you will ever use will include an API, every API will front an SDK and you'll think of the two interchangably. Almost always the term that's used to name the product will just come down to marketing.

@TheHeartOfTheEvil Ай бұрын

This is how I conceptualize the difference: API = You expose a rest api for your customers to use, they then need to make all the required http calls themselves SDK = You provide a library that wraps your API, so that your customers don't need to write all the low level stuff themselves but can just call a method and the sdk takes care of the rest

@nesseihtgnay9419 Ай бұрын

Ok than what is CAE and PDK?

@Mark_Dee Ай бұрын

API = Application Protocol Interface But to say that would be too easy 😂

@will6330 Ай бұрын

So if I use an API to mod a game, which comes with tools to interact and communicate with the game itself, does that in itself contain an SDK? Or would it only be the other way around?

@mickdavies5647 26 күн бұрын

The API is what you interact with. The SDK is the rest of it. You don't need to know much about a car in order to drive it other than how it is affected when you use the controls, but a steering wheel and set of pedals would be mostly useless if they weren't connected to anything. I suppose you could argue that a cockpit and a plane are completely different, but most people wouldn't bother

@SidTechOps Ай бұрын

Just use it to understand in a practical rather than learning definitions

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