Power Apps

Power Apps is one of four main services of the Power Platform. The other services are Power Automate, Power BI and Power Virtual Agents. With Power Apps citizen developers can build apps and portals without using traditional code. There are several different no-code/low-code approaches to create business logic to your apps, e.g. by using Power Automate flows or workflows. Professional developers can extend apps with code, e.g. by creating business logic using plugins or Azure functions. Power Apps Component Framework is the framework used by Microsoft to create components to Model-driven Apps. Professional Developers can use this framework and create their own custom components, PCF controls.

There are three app types; Model-Driven Apps, Canvas Apps and portals.

The former CRM functionality from Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, has evolved into a number of Model-Driven Apps built on the Power Platform. Partners and customers to Microsoft can extend these apps or create custom Model-Driven Apps.

History

On the 30th of November 2015 Microsoft PowerApps was introduced on the Official Microsoft Blog Introducing Microsoft PowerApps.

Public Preview was announced on the 29th of April 2016 Announcing Public Preview for PowerApps.

Microsoft PowerApps became General Available on the 1st of November 2016 Microsoft PowerApps and Flow are General Available starting tomorrow.

Microsoft Resources

The official Microsoft Power Apps YouTube channel The Microsoft Power Apps Blog Microsoft Power Apps Community