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Learn Microsoft PowerApps

By : Matthew Weston
Book Image

Learn Microsoft PowerApps

By: Matthew Weston

Overview of this book

Microsoft PowerApps provides a modern approach to building business applications for mobile, tablet, and browser. Learn Microsoft PowerApps will guide you in creating powerful and productive apps that will add value to your organization by helping you transform old and inefficient processes and workflows. Starting with an introduction to PowerApps, this book will help you set up and configure your first application. You’ll explore a variety of built-in templates and understand the key difference between types of applications such as canvas and model-driven apps, which are used to create apps for specific business scenarios. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to generate and integrate apps directly with SharePoint, and gain an understanding of PowerApps key components such as connectors and formulas. As you advance, you’ll be able to use various controls and data sources, including technologies such as GPS, and combine them to create an iterative app. Finally, the book will help you understand how PowerApps can use several Microsoft Power Automate and Azure functionalities to improve your applications. By the end of this PowerApps book, you’ll be ready to confidently develop lightweight business applications with minimal code.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started with PowerApps
6
Section 2: Developing Your PowerApp
11
Section 3: Extending the Capabilities of Your PowerApp
18
Section 4: Working with Model-Driven Apps
21
Section 5: Governing PowerApps
Working with Images and Barcodes

In the previous chapter, we started to capture more contextual information within our apps by utilizing the built-in GPS functions of a mobile device. In this chapter, we will expand on our exploitation of mobile device capabilities by capturing and using images, as well as being able to read/identify information from barcodes and Quick Response (QR) codes.

Both barcodes and QR codes are available on almost everything that we interact with on a day-to-day basis, whether that is on our food goods or our electronics and even for quickly locating apps. These unique identifiers can be utilized throughout our apps, allowing us to encode and read data using methods other than standard textual formats.

In this chapter, we will be covering the following topics:

  • Understanding how to store images within PowerApps
  • Using images with the camera control
  • Using...