Chapter 8: Power Apps in Teams

With many organizations shifting to remote or hybrid workforces, millions of users are spending more time on Microsoft Teams than ever. For many, Teams is a collaboration tool: chat, meetings, file collaboration, and task management. As we've alluded to already, Teams is also a platform. It can be used as the launchpad for a variety of third-party and custom apps, tools, and integrations. To get the most out of the Teams platform, both citizens and pro-developers alike can build and integrate their own apps with Microsoft Power Platform—a suite of low-code and no-code tools.

Power Apps, a component of Power Platform, is a low-code app development tool that integrates directly into Microsoft Teams. Apps can be embedded as tabs to channels that your team already uses, deployed as personal apps to users on their Teams rail, or even built from the ground up inside of Teams using Microsoft Dataverse.

This chapter will cover the following...