Do you know what Power Apps are?
Power Apps are a development platform for mobile applications. They refer to a suite of services, apps, connectors as well as data platform offering a rapid application development environment that you can use for business requirement.
By using the Power Apps, you can build custom business applications connecting to business data stored in either the underlying data platform or the different online and on-premises data sources.
The applications that are built using Power Apps offer commendable business logic as well as workflow functionality capacitated to transform manual business process to automated ones. Moreover, the applications built using Power Apps enjoy responsive design, thus it runs seamlessly on all devices.
Power Apps also offer a platform that allows interaction with metadata and data, create custom connectors, apply business logic and ensure integration with external data.
So, if you are a developer and intend to build a customised application without writing code, this is the way to go!
Function of Power Apps
Power Apps comes with a wonderful drag and drop user interface. You can use it to add multiple controls, screens, media and forms for building a mobile application. You can also use it for data storage or connecting it to external data sources. After you build the application, you can publish it and then share it with your organisation.
Microsoft Power Apps on Azure
Power Apps offer low-code approach for building application for any device while you work with your Azure based services.
Advantages of Microsoft Power App on Azure
Let us find out how can Microsoft Power Apps on Azure help you.
It comes with the following features:
- Ensures automatic application lifecycle management as well as DevOps integration.
- Includes command line interface for building components ensuring customised and re-usable user experience.
- Packs in connectivity to several third-party applications.
- APIs and developer tools ensure end to end application platform.
Now what do you gain of these features?
- Solve issues faster
- Allow the ‘citizen developers’ to develop business applications which you can manage centrally through IT. You can scale up innovation across organisation and allow the developers focus on codes that matter.
- Introduce Artificial Intelligence to applications and processes.
- You can bring in new functionality to applications using Azure and Microsoft Power Platform.
What Power Apps Does Not Do?
Well, though most of us deny this fact, we are almost always finding faults.
We understand that everything cannot be good and thus, there must be a catch. Let us have a look at the limitations of Power Apps now.
- Power Apps was chiefly designed for business mobile application. It means, it is to be used internally. You cannot create a Power App for and share with the world.
- Your developers cannot add any HTML code or do any customisation. In short, changes are not allowed in coding.
Though Power Apps may not be able to meet your exact requirement right now, since this is a cloud-oriented service and Microsoft releases updates, features and makes enhancements regularly, you can rest assured of a solution soon.
