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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
Creating Your First Canvas PowerApp

In this chapter, we will look at how to create our first PowerApp by creating a canvas app. Canvas apps are generally what people think of when they think of PowerApps and are where most app development takes place. Canvas apps have the smallest learning curve in terms of grasping the basics, so this is the ideal place to start your PowerApps journey.

We will also look into the basic settings of our app so that you can start changing its settings and ensure you have the right app for the type of functionality that you want to present. By doing this, you will also be able to ensure that your app has the right identity for your users so that it can be identifiable and therefore used.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a mobile app
  • Creating a tablet app
  • Changing the app settings
  • Lab 1

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