问题
I am thinking about building a student app, that would use Moodle data, and notify the user when a new file has been uploaded, and perhaps do something like checking your grades etc.
I'm quite new to android programming and can get easily confused with the technical terms. I've looked around the web and found that there is an API, but I dont really 100% know what that means. Which is weird since I've communicated with API's like the OpenWeatherMap one and uTorrent. Would Moodle's api do the same? Make it easier for me to get their data? Their descriptions are really technical and I can not understand much.
回答1:
Please note that "API" in moodle does not automatically refer to webservices like you are used to communicate with.
See https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Mobile_web_services and https://docs.moodle.org/32/en/Using_web_services and https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Web_service_API_functions
These docs might be interesting for you.
Beside the existing webservice methods, you can also create your own moodle plugin, which provides the methods required, some info can be found here https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Adding_a_web_service_to_a_plugin
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41522924/is-it-possible-to-have-my-app-communicate-with-moodle