Creating a template-based app

Power Apps comes with prebuilt templates that let you create functional Power Apps without having to acquire a deep knowledge of Power Apps concepts. This provides you with an opportunity to get a deeper insight into the prebuilt apps and understand the concepts of data binding, data updates, validation, and so on. This way, you could reverse engineer some of the applications that Microsoft and other vendors have developed and shared with the community. Go through the next section to learn about creating apps using a template.

Getting ready

You need Power Apps plan included in your Microsoft 365 subscription in order to build a Power App.

How to do it...

To create an app, go through the following steps:

1. Log in to Office.com and click on All Apps.
2. Choose Power Apps from the list of applications.

3. You will be taken to the Power Apps landing page. Click on All templates:

   

   Figure 1: Power Apps Templates

4. There are lots of templates to choose from. Select the...