2007-02-22 08:40:09 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
An API is an Application Programmers Interface and a UI is a User Interface.
Basically APIs are used by programmers to interface their software with existing code and make it do new stuff (google has an API so programmers can integrate search functions into internet browsers).
UI's are what real people use when they open up a piece of software (e.g. the interface to the internet browser with all the pretty windows and toolbars etc)
2007-02-22 08:46:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A UI is a user interface. It is basically how a user interacts with a program.
An API (Application Programming Interface) is how code interacts with other code. Basically code is made up into a class, and to use that classes functions you look up the API on how to interact with that class.
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So a programmer uses an API
The end user uses the UI
2007-02-22 16:46:12 · answer #2 · answered by rsmith985 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The UI is the User Interface that you use to interact with an application. For example, your Browser is probably a GUI (Graphical User Interface) used to browse the web.
API, or Application Program Interface, are used to build applications. For example, you can create a program using the C language and utilize API's from Google to include searching functionality within your program. You wouldn't have to write those functions yourself - only the calls to them.
2007-02-22 16:44:30 · answer #3 · answered by BigRez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋