Developing Apps for SharePoint 2013

App development in SharePoint 2013 is very cumbersome process using visual studio 2012. As in the process of developing my first testing App I’ve faced lot of issues, and after some goggling I was able to resolve those issues. So, here is the process we need to follow to develop and deploy App for SharePoint 2013:

Configuring SharePoint 2013 to host Apps

1. Setting-up App domain for hosting apps.
2. Create the App management and Subscription Settings service application.
3. Configure SharePoint to use App domain.

For configuring these things you can follow the steps from this blog post.

Developing and Deploying SharePoint-Hosted App

For developing SharePoint-hosted app in visual studio you need Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012 and the SharePoint Client Components. Once you have installed this tool you are ready to develop SharePoint-hosted Apps.

Now follow the steps given in this blog post to develop an App.

Note: Don’t use system account to deploy your app to SharePoint, it will throw an error.

Lastly, after deploying an App to SharePoint 2013 try to access that app in browser.

Note: If you are getting a pop-up for authentication and after providing credentials not able to login then that’s a loop-back problem of assigning same address for both domains. So, you are required to disable the loop-back. Method 2 in this support document explains the steps of disabling loop-back. So, after following these step, you’ll be able to login to the newly developed app.