Best practices to develop apps on Microsoft Power Apps

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Best practices to develop apps on Microsoft Power
Apps
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What is  Microsoft Power Apps ?

• Microsoft Power Apps presents several options for
  users to connect and interact with content via
  the Microsoft 365 suite. To offer a superior
  end-user experience and create efficient
  cost-effective ways to interact with enterprise
  content, it is advisable for content managers to
  employ certain best practices while building on
  Power Apps.
• Power Apps allows users to develop mobile apps
  through its web-based designer with zero lines of
  code. Business users can build apps with ease in
  the Power Apps design portal and extract maximum
  advantage of certain hardware capabilities
  present in mobile devices, tablets and computers
  - such as cameras, GPS and touch functions.

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• 5 best practices to adopt on Microsoft Power Apps

• Understand the needs and behaviors of end users
  - Begin by identifying the business challenges
  the app seeks to solve, before determining the
  overall interactions that the end user expects.
  It is important to set clear expectations about
  what the app accomplishes, the audience and the
  desired outcomes.
• Understand the features and limitations of Power
  Apps- While Power Apps offers a wide range of
  functionality like, for example, connecting
  multiple data sources such as SQL databases,
  SharePoint lists and other online data
  repositories, in order to create, read, update
  and delete data, it does not support third-party
  components or the reuse of custom controls.

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• Develop Power Apps in adherence to SDLC
  standards- SDLC (Software Development Life
  Cycle) includes several processes that ensure
  optimum app design and development, which should
  ideally include the following
• 1. Analysis of business requirements
  for the app
• 2. Planning, testing and deployment
• 3. Power Apps architecture, design and
  development
• Determine licensing requirements ahead of design
  implementation - Most Microsoft 365 plans
  include a subscription to Power Apps, although
  connecting to advanced data sources such as an
  on-premises SQL database, Salesforce or Microsoft
  Dynamics requires the user to purchase Power
  Apps' premium plans.

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• Monitor the Power Apps roadmap- Developers and
  content managers must visit the Microsoft 365
  roadmap to stay up to date with new features and
  functionalities introduced by Microsoft to
  enhance Power Apps. These new capabilities offer
  organizations more opportunities to address
  challenges within the platform.

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