Power Apps suite provides a great rapid application development environment using which you can create feature rich apps without even writing a code. Power Apps is also an extensible platform which allow developers to customize and extend it.
Key Features of Power Apps are
- You can develop business applications without writing code.
- Using Power Apps, you can connect to your business data that is stored either in underlying platform(Common Data Service) or in various online and on-premises data sources like SharePoint, Excel, Office 365, Dynamics 365, SQL server etc.
- Apps built using Power Apps are responsive in nature which can run seamlessly on browser or any other mobile devices.
- Apps that are built using Power Apps provide rich business logic and workflow capabilities to transform your manual business process to digital, automated processes.
In this article we will learn to create a
Mobile app which will use
Excel workbook as a data source stored in
Microsoft One drive. This Excel workbook lists the company's inventory of flooring samples with pictures and prices.
Connect to a data source
- Download the Excel Workbook and save it to your one drive.
- Login to https://web.powerapps.com
- Create new Canvas app.
- Connect to One drive for business data source.
- Select uploaded excel file under appropriate connection. Note, you may have to create the connection if not already created.
- Select table from excel file and click on connect.
- Click on play icon in top left corner to preview and play with the app.
Install mobile app on your device
- Download Power Apps mobile App from the play store of your device platform.
- Login using your credentials.
- Run your App from Power Apps Mobile App. If you don't want to install the app on your device, you can run it in a browser.
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