This is all part of the Biometrics API that Google released with Android Nougat – it was the Fingerprint API, then updated to Biometrics API with the addition of Face Unlock on the Pixel 4 in 2019.

Public APIs. Android Q will reduce its reliance on private APIs, says Google. Private APIs are generally available only to specific, approved organizations or developers.

Via the Awareness API an app can get data about what Android has inferred about what is going on. That way an app can tell when a person is in a moving vehicle, when a person is in a vehicle ...

Google's Android Pie is rumored to include security upgrades, a multi-camera API, a notch, and much more. Here's what developers, businesses, and users need to know about Android 9.0.

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. This ...

What’s unknown for now is whether those RCS APIs will be accessible to Android app developers, not just OEMs. With how relatively simple it should be for Google to “un-hide” the RCS ...

For Android 12.1, Google is working on APIs for having audio be “spatialized,” an effect that typically makes music or other stereo audio sound as though it’s in surround sound.

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 ...