A-Z: 26 tips! Learn how to improve your Power Apps!

Inspiration

Lunch and learns are fun! And we had a series of them at Hitachi Solutions in 2020. One of the ones that I was a part of was about Power Platform tips and tricks. We were planning to do 50 tips or so in an hour. So I thought it would be cool if 26 of them could be for Power Apps, one each from A-Z! And that's how these were born! I presented this topic at several different events and finally decided to blog about it so its easy to reference. I have blogged some of these earlier in more depth. This series is intended to be quick points of reference that you can use to improve user experience in your apps.

The tips

Over the next 26 days, I will release one tip a day. As I do, I will add a link to the post here in this post. So stay tuned to get one Power Apps tip a day in the month of Feb 2021!

1. Add Picture vs Camera Control – Who is the winner?
2. Background images for Power Apps screens – the right way!
3. Combo box or Dropdown? - Who is the winner?
4. Delegation in Power Apps – How to identify and test!
5. Edit vs Display – Which is the better form?
6. Formulas – How to learn the 170+ Power Apps formulas?
7. Galleries vs Data Tables – How to pick between the two in Power Apps?
8. Hyperlinks – How to launch web pages & apps in Power Apps!
9. Icons – How to increase performance!
10. Jump start – How to speed up Power Apps dev with components!
11. Keyboard – How to control the keyboard type on mobile
12. LastSubmit – How to fetch the last submitted record in Power Apps
13. Media controls in Power Apps – How to improve user experience!
14. New screens – How to speed up Power Apps dev using templates!
15. OnStart – How to optimize app loading experience!
16. Phone camera – How to switch cameras on Power Apps mobile!
17. Quotes – Should you use single or double in Power Apps?
18. Reset – How to reset a Power Apps gallery?
19. SaveData – How to persist your Power Apps sessions!
20. Tables – How to create tables in Power Apps
21. User – How to fetch current user’s details in Power Apps
22. Variables – What happens when global & context var have the same name?
23. Wrap Count – How to change the layout of Power Apps galleries
24. X – Creating X records in a collection using Sequence
25. Y - Yes/No data card in Power Apps for better UX!
26. Zero state – How to improve UX with images!

PS: The source for most of these is the official Microsoft documentation on Power Apps controls which can be found here.

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