SDK vs API ! which is better?

Can someone please tell me why API is better or worse than SDK? Would love to know peoples experiences.

Software Development Kit is a selection of tools and possibly including API’s as part of source or dlls included, it’s an umbrella term for a collection of stuff that’s helpful to solve a task, for example an AR SDK.

API is the Application Programming Interface… the commands you use in Unity for example, or a library with function calls.

They’re totally different things that a google would’ve cleared up. You don’t compare them.

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Experience has nothing to do with their definitions and purposes. There are only facts and they’re covered by Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_kit

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