What this book covers
Chapter 1, Building pixel-perfect Solutions with Canvas Power Apps, starts with the best practices for building canvas apps and continues with building solutions, including coverage of data source setup.
Chapter 2, Building from data with Model-Driven Apps, continues our journey by following a collection of recipes joined together to create an all-around help desk solution.
Chapter 3, Choosing the right Data Source for your applications, will help you to make a sound decision when determining the data source of your applications. This chapter also explains the importance of the licensing model on this platform.
Chapter 4, Automating Processes with Power Automate, focuses on several use cases to improve business processes using this component of the Power Platform.
Chapter 5, Extending the Platform, builds upon the concept of enhancing the application building process by using components. We will also learn how to extend the platform by creating custom connectors.
Chapter 6, Improving User Experience, looks at how to enrich your user interfaces to make your applications more appealing to end users. This chapter will also cover how to create a responsive application using the latest techniques available in Power Apps.
Chapter 7, Power Apps Everywhere, explains all the possible ways to use and integrate Power Apps on many platforms, from mobile device consumption to embedding scenarios on SharePoint and Power BI, without forgetting the latest on Microsoft Teams development, including Dataverse for Teams.
Chapter 8, Empowering Your Applications with no code Artificial Intelligence, focuses on using AI Builder solutions to improve our applications and processes by bringing artificial intelligence into the mix.
Chapter 9, Discovering the Power Platform admin center, is about learning how to manage the Power Platform using the tools and settings available in this admin center.
Chapter 10, Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting, offers a collection of hints from the application building experience in Power Apps with a set of topics that will help solve or improve a wide variety of scenarios.
Chapter 11, Advanced Techniques with Power Apps Component Framework, tackles the pro-developer side of things by building a Power Apps Component Framework component from scratch. We will look at setting up our development environment and deploying the component to an application.