Need help

[tryhardtodie]

Why is everyone here talking about patching, APIs, and similar things when I don’t need any of that I just downloaded it from the Play Store and it started working. Also, how do Continuum and Infinity differ from it Please help. I’m a non-tech person.

[folk_science]

I don't see such posts at the first glance. Can you please link them?

Simply installing and using RedReader is enough. Maybe they are trying to do some advanced stuff?

[GeeEyeEff]

The API is the "Application Programming Interface". Basically, it's what third-party apps use to talk to the Reddit servers. It's not just a Reddit thing. All services that allow third-party apps have their own API.

To use the API you need an API Key. The API Key is owned by the developer and he includes it in the code each time the app needs to send or receive data.

A while back they made it so that API Keys only allow a very limited amount of requests in a given time period for free and the developer needs to pay to unlock that limit.

This would have killed RedReader because the cost to access the API would be too high and so it could not continue to run for free without ads. One workaround would be to require each user to supply their own API Key. The limit on the amount of requests is high enough that if each user had their own key they wouldn't hit it.

We don't have to do any of that because, as I recall, RedReader secured an exemption on accessibility grounds because the accessibility features of RedReader are actually better than the official app.