Preface
The Microsoft Power Apps platform has become a key tool for modern businesses, offering a highly flexible and efficient way to develop custom applications. By simplifying the development process with its drag-and-drop interface and low-code/no-code capabilities, Power Apps allows users—regardless of technical expertise—to quickly build apps tailored to their business needs. Pre-built templates and seamless integration with Microsoft services and external data sources further enhance its utility, promoting a cohesive and optimized business environment. For companies seeking to innovate, streamline operations, and drive digital transformation, Power Apps serves as an essential tool that enables agility, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
Although Power Apps excels in providing an accessible low-code/no-code environment, fully unlocking its potential requires looking beyond these fundamentals. This guide will walk you through every phase of the app development lifecycle. From identifying initial concepts to applying advanced development techniques and maintaining your applications, we’ll explore how to maximize the capabilities of Power Apps. No matter the project—whether building apps, websites, or new products—the first critical step is understanding the underlying business need, ensuring a strong foundation for success.
We have designed this book to focus on key areas of overall Power App development. We begin with key foundational aspects including project planning, using Power Platform environments and solutions, understanding canvas apps versus model-driven apps, as well as data sources.
We then move into more advanced development areas to help you build more complex apps. In addition, we cover integrating Power Apps with other applications such as Power Automate, Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, and Power BI. Finally, we touch down on governance and development strategies.
Power Apps provides you the ability to develop robust low code/no code applications. However, as you move beyond basic apps, there are many areas to need to be considered. Our goal is to strengthen your expertise to go beyond just the basics.
