July 10,2021

                                                                *    POWER APPS  *                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Introduction To Power Apps :-

Power Apps is a no-code/low-code platform for building apps that builds off of concepts similar to formulas in an Excel workbook such as SUM and TEXT.

Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, connectors and data platform that provides a rapid application development environment to build custom apps for your business needs.

 Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your business data stored either in the underlying data platform Microsoft Dataverse or in various online and on-premises data sources (SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on)

Using Power Apps, you can create three types of apps: Canvas, Model-driven and Portal :-

 1.Canvas App: 

Canvas apps are a great option when you want to build an app from a blank canvas. You start by choosing the screen size: tablet or mobile, then you have a blank screen from which to build. 

2.Model driven App:

Model-driven app design is a component-focused approach to app development. Model-driven app design doesn’t require code and the apps you make can be simple or very complex. Unlike canvas app development where the designer has complete control over app layout, with model-driven apps much of the layout is determined for you and largely designated by the components you add to the app.

3.Portals:

Portals bring the power of no-code solutions to building externally facing websites. Through the Power Apps interface, you can build an anonymous or authenticated website that allows users to interact with data held in Dataverse. The same drag and drop experience you enjoy when building apps is available to build these rich, interactive websites.

Advantages of POWER APPS :-

* Power Apps is an alternative of Info-path forms and this can be used to create the responsive custom forms and connected to a verity of data sources

* It can connect a variety of data sources like SQL, SharePoint, Power BI, Excel, MS Access, etc.  

* Power Apps comes integrated with Microsoft Flow.

* Power Apps support Mobile devices as well. (Responsive UI.