Improving model-driven apps with custom pages

Model-driven apps offer many capabilities focused on data-driven solutions. These solutions use the features available from Dataverse, but what if you need to go beyond what model-driven apps provide?

The Power Apps roadmap hints about a convergence model in which model-driven and canvas apps use the same designer to build solutions. This feature offers the ability to unite the excellent capabilities available in canvas apps within model-driven applications. More information on this subject is available here: https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/custom-pages-for-converging-model-driven-apps-and-canvas-apps/.

With this recipe, we will use canvas apps to use one of the mobile device’s native capabilities – in this case, the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Getting ready

Building on this chapter’s solution, we will improve the data handling of the Ticket operations table. Before we begin, update...