Power Apps building blocks
Power Apps is a collection of services, apps, and connectors that work together to let you do much more than just view your data. You can act on your data and update it anywhere and from any device.
This unit explores each part of the following Power Apps components:
Power Apps home page - Apps start at this page, whether you build them from data, a sample app, or a blank screen.
Power Apps mobile - Run your apps on Microsoft Windows, Apple iOS, and Google Android devices.
Microsoft Power Platform admin center - Manage Power Apps environments and other components.
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To use these sites, you need to sign in by using your organizational account.
Power Apps home page
If you're building an app, you'll start with the Power Apps home page. On this page, you can build apps from sample apps, templates, or a blank screen. All apps that you build appear on this page, along with apps that others create and share with you.
The Power Apps home page is the launch point for all things Power Apps. From here, you can open the designer to fully develop your apps to make them more effective as business tools and to make them more attractive. The following Power Apps designer components help make the process of creating apps seem more like building a slide deck in Microsoft PowerPoint:
Left-side panel - Initially opens to the Tree view to show a hierarchical view of all controls on each screen or a thumbnail for each screen in your app.
Upper-left dropdown menu - This dropdown contains a property list for the selected control. Selecting a property opens the item in the fx input field enabling you to customize formulas for the selected property.
Middle pane - Shows the selected screen of the canvas app that you're working on.
Right panel - Where you can set options, such as the layout, properties, and data sources for the selected control.
Power Apps for mobile devices
Power Apps for Windows, iOS, and Android devices allow you to use all apps that you create and that others share with you on your mobile device. You or your users can download the Microsoft Power Apps application from the appropriate app store. When you sign in with your credentials, you will have access to all of your apps in the form of a menu. You can even customize the app to select a default app that opens when you first open Power Apps. You only need to download Power Apps for mobile devices once.
When using Power Apps, you get the most out of your device's capabilities: camera controls, GPS location, and more.
Microsoft Power Platform admin center
Microsoft Power Platform admin center is the centralized place for managing Power Apps for an organization. On this site, you can define and manage different environments to house the apps. For example, you might have separate environments for development and production apps. Additionally, you can define data connections, manage environment security roles, and modify data policies.
For more information, see Use best practices to secure and govern Microsoft Power Platform environments.
