Microsoft Power Apps

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What is Power Apps? Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform, that provides a rapid development environment to build custom apps for your business needs. Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your data stored either in the underlying data platform (Microsoft Dataverse) or in various online and on-premises data sources (such as SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server, and so on).

There’s a lot in that definition above by Microsoft. Power Platform includes Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, and Virtual Agents. So Power Apps is part of the Power Platform. There are three different kinds of Power Apps: canvas apps, model-driven, and portal apps.

In terms of its features, it’s very easy to use because it is a drag-and-drop system where you don’t need to write code. Secondly. the applications run anywhere. Anywhere means in Windows, on your browser, on your phone, Mac, and tablets. Thirdly, you can connect to anything. You can connect it to Excel files, SQL Server databases, text files, Salesforce, SharePoint, and others. Fourthly, it’s customizable.

Canvas Apps

Canvas apps start you with a blank canvas onto which you can drag and drop components in any formation to design a user interface. Once everything is in its proper place, you can make additional adjustments to the size and formatting of each of these components. This is a traditional style of development. Canvas apps are ideal for building task-based or role-based applications.

Model-Driven Apps

Model-driven apps, on the other hand, are better for creating end-to-end solutions.

Portal Apps

Power Apps Portals is part of the Microsoft Power Platform and enables businesses to create low-code, responsive, personalized websites that allow users (both internal and external) to interact with selective Dynamics 365 data and capabilities.

Developer Subscription for Power Apps

You can create a subscription to the Microsoft 365 Developer Program. The subscription is renewable. Have a gander at the YouTube video called How to Create a Developer Subscription for Power Apps.