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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

Icon controls

Icons are one of the key ways in which you can add graphical and visual depth to your apps. The icons menu contains a number of icons, as well as geometric shapes that can be laid on top of each other to create effects. There are a large number of icons, many of which will satisfy the graphical requirements of your app without you having to develop your own images.

Within PowerApps, icons are used to provide various elements of functionality, for example, to sort, search, apply filters, or to open a menu.

The shape icons are generally used for creating styling and visual effects within PowerApps so that we can add header areas, backgrounds, or zones within our apps:

Figure 5.18: The icons and geometric shapes that are available within PowerApps

Each of the icons is effectively SVG in nature, which means you can make them as large or as small as you like without any distortion taking place. This also means that you can apply your own background and foreground colors to give...