As mentioned, from a user experience perspective, the two main categories of apps that can be created by leveraging Power Apps are canvas apps and model-driven apps. Fundamentally, these application models are quite different from each other, and they apply to different scenarios. It is also possible to mix canvas and model-driven apps and incorporate a canvas app into a model-driven app, for example.
While a model-driven app is focused primarily on the data, while keeping a somewhat standard visualization, a canvas app allows creativity to take over to create visually appealing user experiences.
In the subsequent section, we will see how to create canvas apps and model-driven apps.
Creating a canvas app
Canvas apps are applications built in a very visual manner, like designing a PowerPoint presentation deck. Each app page is a slide in your deck, and you can skip between various pages based on links or rules on each page or controls.
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