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Accessing Data From Other Apps

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Beginner here. What exactly goes on "behind the scenes" when an app or a game on mobile or any other platform accesses data from another app? Like if you want upload something from your gallery to facebook or twitter, what kind of code is executed when this occurs?

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If it's accessing data native to the OS (like a photo gallery) it's probably just an API call that can retrieve the data.

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if you use retarded/autistic/etc to mean stupid please gtfo

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Apps can communicate using multiple ways.

For example by accessing the same files and write/read data from those files.

Or if you want more direct communication using a network loop: host a server for the current machine only, then let apps on that machine connect to it, then send data over that connection.

The ip address that this happens on is 127.0.0.1

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