Chapter 17

Building Business Apps with Power Apps

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Gaining an understanding of Power Apps

Bullet Building your first Power App

Bullet Using a Power App on your mobile device

Bullet Making SharePoint tolerable on a mobile phone

Microsoft Power Apps is a service that spans many different products. The idea of Power Apps is to provide a platform for non-developers to build apps that people can use on their smartphones and other computing devices. Power Apps is designed for business needs and thus, fits in nicely with SharePoint.

In this chapter, you learn how to build and deploy an app using Power Apps. You also learn how to integrate your app with SharePoint and take a look at SharePoint’s mobile environment.

Introducing Power Apps

When we first started using Power Apps, we were excited. It seemed like a platform designed specifically for SharePoint. The Power Apps we built we made available to all types of users on their mobile phones. All of a sudden, people started using SharePoint and had no idea they were using SharePoint. They just used an app on their phones and knew that it solved ...

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