Ebook: Learn Microsoft Power Apps: The definitive handbook for building solutions with Power Apps to solve your business needs, 2nd Edition

Learn introductory concepts and definitions, accompanied with step-by-step examples you can build in Power Apps for practical business scenarios

Key Features

• Building your own example app to solve real-world business scenarios
• Learn the best practices for creating apps with rich UX
• Improve productivity with business process automation using Microsoft Power Automate

Book Description

Microsoft Power Apps provides a modern approach to building business applications that improve how we work on mobile, tablet, browser, and Microsoft Teams, also providing an enhanced UX for efficient workflow.

Learn Microsoft Power Apps, 2nd Edition, starts with an introduction to Power Apps that will help you feel comfortable with the creation experience, before gradually progressing through app development. You will build, set up, and configure your first application by writing formulas that might remind you of Microsoft Excel. You'll learn to use a variety of built-in templates and understand the different types of apps available for a variety of business scenarios.

Then, you’ll learn how to generate and integrate apps directly with SharePoint, and gain an understanding of Power Apps 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 a powerful and interactive app. Finally, the book will help you understand how Power Apps can use Microsoft Power Automate and Microsoft Azure functionalities to improve your applications.

By the end of this Power Apps book, you’ll be ready to develop lightweight business applications with little code.

What you will learn

• Understand Power Apps with an initial overview
• Take your first steps building canvas apps
• Learn the functionality to make your application rich with features
• Experience new features of integration to build a unified platform
• Develop your builds complexity with model-driven apps
• Discover best practices for Power App builds and development

Who This Book Is For

This book is perfect for business analysts, IT professionals, non-developers, and developers new to Power Apps. If you want to meet business needs by creating high-productivity apps, this book is for you. This new edition will cover the essential elements for beginners, along with examples that will begin to encompass more advanced and complex topics. To make the most of this book, it is recommended that you have a basic understanding of Microsoft 365 as we will be interacting with it as we develop our apps.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing PowerApps
2. Creating Your First Canvas PowerApp
3. Creating Apps from SharePoint
4. Publishing and Leveraging PowerApps
5. Exploring Controls
6. Exploring Formulas
7. Exploring Reusable Controls
8. Working With Data
9. Introducing Connectors
10. Using GPS in PowerApps
11. Working with Images and Barcodes
12. Securing Your PowerApps
13. Working Offline
14. Using Power Automate with PowerApps
15. Using Azure with PowerApps
16. Data visualisation
17. AI builder
18. Power BI & Power Automate
19. Dataverse
20. Best practices with Power App development
21. Introducing Model-Driven Apps
22. Creating Model-Driven Apps
23. Exploring Environments within Our Tenancy
24. Assessments