Creating a tablet app

The tablet rendition of PowerApp provides you with a larger canvas for building your app – one that allows you to create an app that works well on tablet devices. However, the tablet rendition also has additional uses as it gives you a good basis for adding functionality to SharePoint online using the PowerApps web part, or to Microsoft Teams as a tab. Using PowerApps within Teams will be covered in Chapter 4, Publishing and Leveraging PowerApps.

Creating a blank tablet app follows almost the same procedure as creating a mobile app:

1. To create a new blank tablet app, access PowerApps from https://web.powerapps.com. Alternatively, navigate to the Office 365 portal (portal.office.com) and select PowerApps.
2. Select Canvas app from blank. This will launch a modal dialogue box that will ask you for more details about the App name and the Format it is going to take. This time, we will select Tablet, which will generate a canvas that is 1,366 pixels wide and 768 pixels...