In this chapter you will discover what canvas apps are, get comfortable in Power Apps Studio, and build your first screen by adding controls and wiring them together with Power Fx.

What is Power Apps?

Take a tour of the maker portal

Comparing modern and classic controls

Options

Canvas app

Model-driven app

Canvas or model-driven?

Navigating Power Apps Studio

Create your first canvas app

Add your first controls

Your first controls

Make the label react to typing

Sign in with Set() and a boolean

Brand the app with a theme

Getting Started with Power Apps

Next, you will see how Power Apps works with data, then load a task list and show it in a gallery your users can format, filter, and search.

Data sources and connectors

Load Lumen's marketing tasks

Bind a gallery to the data

Displaying data with galleries

Customize the gallery template

Conditional formatting on Priority

Design an empty state

Filtering and searching data

Filter the gallery by Status

Search by title with StartsWith

Combine Filter and StartsWith

Connecting to Data

Then, you will connect screens, work with forms and validation, and run App Checker to catch issues before you share your app.

Navigating between screens

Add a detail screen and Navigate to it

Carry the selected ticket with Set()

Forms and data entry

Bind the Edit form to the selected ticket

New and Cancel form buttons

Order the form lifecycle

Conditional logic and validation

Highlight overdue tickets

Block the bad submit with IsBlank + DisplayMode

Putting it all together

Default the form to View mode

Run App Checker and fix one finding

Building Your App

Finally, you will make your app responsive, publish and share it, and look ahead to what you can build with Power Apps next.

Responsive design with containers

Make the gallery responsive across devices

Preview, Publish, and Share

Publish and inspect version history

Co-owner or User?

What's next

When does Dataverse win over SharePoint?

What can Copilot actually do?

Accessibility basics

Congratulations

Publishing and Beyond

Want to build the internal tools your team actually needs - without waiting on IT? This course takes you from a blank canvas to a published, responsive Power App. You'll wire up controls with Power Fx, load a team's task data into the app, display records in galleries with filters and search, and build edit forms with validation. By the final chapter you'll make your app adapt to any screen size, run App Checker, publish, and share with colleagues. No prior Power Apps experience required.

Every team has a process stuck in spreadsheets or email threads that deserves a proper app. Microsoft Power Apps lets you build one without writing traditional code - and this course shows you how, step by step.<br><br><h2>Build Your First Canvas App</h2>Start in Power Apps Studio by creating a blank canvas app, adding controls like labels, buttons, and text inputs, and wiring them together with Power Fx formulas. You'll learn how Set() stores values, how If() drives conditional logic, and how theming gives your app a polished look from day one.<br><br><h2>Connect to Real Data</h2>Move beyond static screens by connecting to Excel and SharePoint data sources through connectors. Display records in flexible-height galleries, apply conditional formatting, and let users narrow results with Filter(), StartsWith(), and dropdown controls.<br><br><h2>Create Multi-Screen Apps with Forms</h2>Wire navigation between screens using Navigate() and Back(), then build Edit Forms that create and update records. Add client-side validation with IsBlank() and DisplayMode, handle success and failure events, and run App Checker to catch formula and accessibility issues before shipping.<br><br><h2>Publish a Responsive App</h2>Wrap your layout in containers so the app adapts to phones, tablets, and laptops. Preview your work, publish the live version, manage versions, and share with colleagues as Co-owners or Users. You'll finish ready to explore Dataverse, Power Automate, and model-driven apps on your own.

Learn Power Apps hands-on: build canvas apps, connect data sources, filter with Power Fx, create forms, add validation, and publish responsive apps.

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Build custom business apps without code using Microsoft Power Apps - from blank canvas to published, responsive app.

Introduction to Power Apps

Create your first canvas app

Introduction to Power Apps

Hands-on interactive exercise