Microsoft Power Apps Cookbook: Become a pro Power Apps maker by applying practical use cases to solve ever-evolving business challenges

Practical recipes that go beyond official documentation to help you create custom solutions, automate processes, and extend the platform's capabilities using Power Apps, Power Automate, Component Framework, and Dataverse for Teams

Key Features

• Improve business operations by creating impactful Power Apps solutions with real-world use cases
• Explore a variety of built-in templates to create custom apps for specific business scenarios
• Strengthen your enterprise applications with advanced techniques and proven tips using a low-code approach

Book Description

Microsoft Power Apps provides a powerful, low-code solution for application development, empowering non-technical users to create robust, practical solutions in no time. This book will help you create a wide range of custom business solutions using the ease of development that Power Apps provides by overcoming many of the challenges faced in business application development.

You'll start by getting to grips with Power Apps Studio and finding out how canvas apps help you build pixel-perfect applications as per business needs. The book then covers the practicalities involved in designing model-driven apps and teaches you how to automate business processes using Power Automate. You'll also discover how to improve user experience (UX) to make applications more appealing. As you advance, you'll learn how to strengthen your business apps by using AI Builder's artificial intelligence capabilities. You'll also explore advanced troubleshooting techniques to find creative ways to overcome various challenges in your Power Apps solutions. The book concludes with Power Apps Component Framework to help you further improve the existing applications' capabilities.

By the end of this book, you'll have gained experience in developing applications using the Power Apps platform and its features.

What you will learn

• Build pixel-perfect solutions with canvas apps
• Design model-driven solutions using various features of Microsoft Dataverse
• Automate business processes such as triggered events, status change notifications, and approval systems with Power Automate
• Implement AI Builder's intelligent capabilities in your solutions
• Improve the UX of business apps to make them more appealing
• Find out how to extend Microsoft Teams using Power Apps
• Extend your business applications' capabilities using Power Apps Component Framework

Who this book is for

This book is for citizen developers and business users looking to build custom applications as per their organizational needs without depending on professional developers. Traditional app developers will also find this book useful by discovering how to build applications in a rapid application development environment with increased productivity and speed. The book is recommended for Power Apps beginners who have taken a couple of online tutorials but are struggling to implement or create real-world solutions. Basic knowledge of Power Apps is necessary to get the best out of this cookbook.

Table of Contents

1. Building Pixel-perfect Solutions with Canvas PowerApps
2. Building Model-Driven Apps
3. Choosing the correct data source for your applications
4. Automating processes with Power Automate
5. Extending the platform
6. Improving User Experience
7. PowerApps everywhere
8. Empower your applications with no code Artificial Intelligence
9. Discovering the Power Platform admin center
10. Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
11. Advance techniques with PowerApps Component Framework

Eickhel Mendoza is the Team Lead of Business Applications at Intelequia. He is in charge of all projects related to Microsoft 365, Power Platform, and Web Development. His experience comes from various roles, like DNN platform development and operations, Project Management, and the latest in Microsoft Power Platform Technologies. He has contributed to significant community events like the Power Platform World Tour, Global Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft 365 Developer Bootcamp, and Dynamics 365 Saturdays during the last years. Eickhel also coordinates several user groups with a group of like-minded developers eager to share their knowledge in different technologies. He is also a Microsoft Business Applications MVP.