KDE APIs
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a set of functions exposed by a program or library that can be invoked by other programmers. An API greatly extends a program by allowing third-party developers to add new functionality. It is an ideal way to allow new features to be added without the need to modify the existing, core code.
The documentation for an API explains how things work and what methods can be called. For some nice tutorials to get started with using the myriad KDE development platform APIs, visit:
The KDE development platform API documentation (apidox) can be found at:
This documentation comes in the qch format, an extended HTML format that can be viewed either in the QtCreator Assistant or via any browser.
The apidox are processed by the Doxygen documentation tool. This tool reads source code for an application (or library) and produces nicely formatted documentation from it. There is a good reference manual available, but hopefully you won't need to consult it just for basic documentation building. When you install the KDE development platform for development purposes, you should also install Doxygen. Then you can build documentation from any project by using the following command:
make docs
More information on the KDE API docs can be found at: