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Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

By : Matthew Weston, Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Book Image

Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

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By: Matthew Weston, Elisa Bárcena Martín

Overview of this book

Microsoft Power Apps provides a modern approach to building low-code business applications for mobiles, tablets, browsers, and Microsoft Teams. The second edition of Learn Microsoft Power Apps will guide you in creating well designed and secure apps that transform old processes and workflows. Learn Microsoft Power Apps starts with an introduction to Power Apps to help you feel comfortable with the creation experience. Using screenshots from the latest UI, you will be guided through how to create an app, building your confidence to start developing further. This book will help you design, set up, and configure your first application by writing simple formulas. You'll learn about the different types of apps you can build in Power Apps and which one applies best to your requirements. In addition to this, you’ll learn how to identify the right data storage system for you, with new chapters covering how to integrate apps with SharePoint or Dataverse. As you advance, you’ll be able to use various controls, connectors, and data sources to create a powerful, interactive app. For example, this book will help you understand how Power Apps can use Microsoft Power Automate, Power BI, and Azure functionalities to improve your applications. Finally, you will be introduced to the emerging Power Apps Copilot tool, which uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the app building process. By the end of this Power Apps book, you’ll be ready to confidently develop lightweight business applications with minimal code.
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
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Index
Appendix

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 our utilization 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 Power Apps
  • Using the Camera control
  • Using the Add picture control
  • Understanding the barcode scanner
  • Lab 9

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