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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

Using the camera control

The camera control is one of the controls that directly interacts with the camera attached to the device. This could be a camera that is built into the device itself, for example, the camera in a phone, or it could be a wired camera that is attached to a desktop device. The camera control allows us to directly capture an image using that device and then do something with it in Power Apps.

The camera control can be inserted into the page from the Insert | Media menu, and when it appears on your page, it will immediately start to stream a feed from your camera:

Graphical user interface, application  Description automatically generated

Figure 11.1: The camera control on the canvas showing a live feed

Within our app, we have the ability to select the camera that we want to take the feed from. The camera selection takes the form of a numerical value, with your primary camera being 0, and then subsequent cameras being numbered from there.

If we take Microsoft Surface as an example, the front-facing camera is camera...