Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for provisioning applications to in vehicle infotainment systems with secured access

An apparatus comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory including computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
• enable provision of at least one application and associated data to a device in response to receipt of an indication of a selection associated with the application;
• enable the application to access requested data via a plurality of application programming interfaces during execution of the application;
• and
• enable provision of the requested data to the application in response to receipt of at least one message generated by a first application programming interface of the interfaces that received a request for the requested data from a second application programming interface of the interfaces.

A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable program code portions comprising:

• program code instructions configured to enable provision of at least one application and associated data to a device in response to receipt of an indication of a selection associated with the application;
• program code instructions configured to enable the application to access requested data via a plurality of application programming interfaces during execution of the application;
• and
• program code instructions configured to enable provision of the requested data to the application in response to receipt of at least one message generated by a first application programming interface of the interfaces that received a request for the requested data from a second application programming interface of the interfaces.