Data Sharing

The Interop API enables apps to:

• offer functionality to other apps (web and native) by registering Interop methods;
• discover apps which offer methods;
• invoke methods on the user's desktop and across the network;
• stream and subscribe for real-time data using the streaming methods of the Interop API;

Apps which offer methods and streams are called Interop servers, and apps which consume them - Interop clients, and collectively - Interop instances.

Any running instance of an app is identified by its Interop instance, which is a set of known key/value pairs uniquely identifying an app.