Overview
- Teaches you how to build data-centric mobile applications for your business, regardless of your technical knowledge
- Shows you how to leverage the complexities of building a real-word application with the same ease of writing a simple spreadsheet
- Uses a hands-on approach complete with context, explanatory screenshots, and non-technical terminology
- Instructs you how to write apps that manage complex data, take pictures, or retrieve GPS coordinates
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Getting Started
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Refining Your Application
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Maintaining Your Application
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Extending Your Application
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About this book
Build mobile apps that specifically target your company’s unique business needs, with the same ease of writing a simple spreadsheet! With this book, you will build business apps designed to work with your company's systems and databases, without having to enlist the expertise of costly, professionally trained software developers.
In Beginning PowerApps, author and business applications expert Tim Leung guides you step-by-step through the process of building your own mobile app. He assumes no technical background, although if you have worked with Excel, you are one step closer. He guides you through scenarios, such as what to do if you have existing databases with complex data structures and how to write screens that can connect to those data. You will come away with an understanding of how to set up screen navigation, manipulate data from within apps, and write solutions to perform specific tasks.
What You'll Learn
- Connect with data
- Write formulas
- Visualize your data through charts
- Work with global positioning systems (GPS)
- Build flows
- Import and export data
- Manage offline scenarios
- Develop custom application programming interfaces (API)
Who This Book Is For
Beginners and non-developers, and assumes no prior knowledge of PowerApps
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Tim Leung is a software developer with more than 10 years of experience in designing and building large scale commercial applications. He is a recognized expert in the field of rapid application development and his previous publication with Apress, Visual Studio LightSwitch (2015), covered this topic in depth. Tim is a Microsoft certified developer, a chartered member of the British Computer Society, and holds a degree in Information Technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Beginning PowerApps
Book Subtitle: The Non-Developers Guide to Building Business Mobile Applications
Authors: Tim Leung
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3003-9
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Tim Leung 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3003-9Published: 27 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 376
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 333 illustrations in colour
Topics: Mobile Computing, Microsoft and .NET