Easy Steps for Third-party API Integration in Your App

Understanding API is very simple. Suppose you go to a restaurant and want to order something, you need a waiter to listen to your requirements and deliver to the kitchen and bring the food back to your table. In this case, consider API as a waiter, it sends information from your mobile app to a third-party system and reverts the result to your mobile app. This is why API integration plays a vital role in the success of a mobile application. Quantumsoftech being a top third-party API integration company offers different API-related services to its clients across the globe.

API is technically defined as a method of communication between various components of software with a set of tools and protocols that enables your mobile application to borrow different functionality and data from other apps and services.

Here’s how mobile API works

Components of a Third Party API

A third-party API consists of mainly two-component, which are:

• Client or we can say the system that sends the request to the server
• A server that might be a database or a computer that responds to the request.

From time to time we have seen clients using third party API integration over developing it from scratch because of the mentioned reasons.

Steps to do API integration to your mobile app

The integration of an API needs expert supervision. Here’s how to carry out a third party API integration.

Step 1. Make Sure You Hire an API integration developer

If you are not a tech-savvy individual or have any programming background, it is difficult for you to integrate an API to your app. However, there’re many mobile app developers who can help you to get this task done. You can hire third-party API integration from Quantumsoftech. They use an SDK (software development kit) that includes a bundle of software development tools in a single installation package. This way, a developer ensures correct API integration in an app.

Step 2. Design Project within the API provider system

The next step is to get registered in the API provider system because every call to API endpoint demands verification and authentication.

Step 3. Get API and authorization key

After registration, the developer gets an API key to identify the calling project and authentication token to verify that the calling user should get access to make the request.

Step 4. Integration of API framework

After that, the developer installs the SDK of his choice with APIs to an app build environment by using dependency managers such as Maven for Android apps and CocoaPods for iOS.

Step 5. Utilize API request methods

To make the app function, new features should get integrated via API, the mobile developer will execute new functionality using dependencies while doing the previous step.

Conclusion

It is important for you to know the importance of an API for your app. This is because using an API for third-party integrations, you can enhance your mobile app functionality. Developing an API is far costlier while, trying third-party app integration significantly reduces the cost and time of the app development process. Ultimately this enables your app to stand tall among the rest in the world of the competitive mobile app market.