Skype Desktop API - what is it?

Skype announced in July 2013 that Skype Desktop API support and development will be discontinued in 2014. We will tell you what this service does and how it affects you.

Skype Desktop API - what do you need it for?

• Skype Desktop API is especially important for developers of Skype apps. With the help of this service, extensions for Skype can be developed and then also supported. So the additional applications or stand-alone programs can interact with Skype.
• Some programs will not run without the Skype Desktop API service. For this reason, some extensions will no longer work from 2014 unless the developers adapt them to the new standards.
• The new Skype URI service, which replaces the Skype Desktop API, is intended to make it easier for developers to program applications for mobile, web and desktop applications at the same time.

Conclusion: The normal user will not notice the setting of the Skype Desktop API. At most older programs that communicate with Skype and have not been updated by the developers.

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