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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

Using the mobile app

One of the biggest drivers for the adoption of PowerApps within organizations is the ability to create mobile apps without the need to pay large development fees. PowerApps, much like other areas of Office 365, has its own dedicated app, which can be downloaded from the relevant app store. Both iOS and Android devices are fully supported, meaning that the reach your app can have can be vast.

The screenshots in this section have been taken using an iOS device:

Figure 4.17: A PowerApps app that has been installed on a mobile device

Once the app has been installed on your device, you can immediately start to use it by launching it from your home screen.

Using the app

When you first launch the PowerApps app, you will be asked to authenticate using the Office 365 credentials that you normally use within the browser. There are a lot of similarities in the user experience between what we saw in Microsoft Teams and what we can see in the mobile app. The first thing we can...