About SharePoint development interface

Question

Develop a mobile APP that will be behind our SharePoint site. Data entered through the APP is saved in our SharePoint. Please give me the interface program that connects them, or tell me how to access them. Thank you!

Answer 1

Hi @Liguo Zheng

To develop a mobile app that interacts with SharePoint, you can use common services that can be accessed using open protocols. SharePoint Foundation 2010 introduced the client object models, which enabled developers to perform remote communication with SharePoint by using the web programming technology of their choice: .NET Framework, Microsoft Silverlight, or JavaScript. SharePoint introduces a Representational State Transfer (REST) service that is fully comparable to the client object models. In SharePoint, nearly every API in the client object models will have a corresponding REST endpoint. Now, developers can interact remotely with the SharePoint object model by using any technology that supports REST web requests. REST can be consumed by any programming language that you want to use for your mobile application development. You can perform basic create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations by using the REST interface provided by SharePoint. REST exposes all of the SharePoint entities and operations that are available in the other SharePoint client APIs. One advantage of using REST is that you don't have to add references to any SharePoint libraries or client assemblies. Instead, you make HTTP requests to the appropriate endpoints to retrieve or update SharePoint entities, such as webs, lists, and list items. For a thorough introduction to the SharePoint REST interface and its architecture, see Use OData query operations in SharePoint REST requests.

Full Article: Build mobile apps for other platforms using SharePoint:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/build-mobile-apps-for-other-platforms-using-sharepoint

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