How to build your first app using Power Apps | Automatically with Copilot or from scratch

Create low code Power Apps to automate everyday tasks. AI-driven Copilot capabilities make it easy to interact with your app and its data using natural language. Or simply build an app from scratch. We’ll demo how to build an inventory app for mechanical parts, that anyone can use on the job, to track and enter new parts.
If you’re new to Power Apps, it’s a part of Microsoft’s Power Platform for building low code apps and processes. Apps can originate from a task or process you’d like to make easier - like a streamlined approval process, or a way to capture and track information on the go. Run them in the browser or on your favorite mobile platform.
Emma Cooper, Principal PM Manager for Power Apps, shares key steps to build your first app in under ten minutes.
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00:00 - Introduction
01:01 - Use AI with Copilot
03:44 - Build an app from scratch
05:11 - Add data
06:42 - Build out the app experience
09:00 - Galleries, forms and navigation using Power FX
10:41 - Wrap up
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[@perryuploads776]

Thank you Emma, this is really cool to work with. I remember working with VBA and C++ (Win32 API) you needed to build objects to refer methods to get the selected item and then use a array with a index to retrieve data values. This is really an another way to develop software. I think Microsoft is going to a right direction to make solid apps that business sometimes needs to do little things without programming skills. As always I like to control code on myself, but having to think that Power Apps gives such a flexibilty to design and program the app (using GUI) is really cool to see. Hope to see more videos and examples. Thanks

[@MSFTMechanics]

Part 2 in this series is up! Emma continues exactly where we left off in this show: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gImtZmmorLhrsNE

[@briankgarland]

Excellent videos. Would love to see this expanded to cover more advanced topics.

[@hazalasmadev]

This a successful video for a general view to Power Apps! Thanks.

[@s14vko]

I am not sure if it's possible but if this tool can programe in external APIs and databases then extract and populate the information on the front end, that would be a game changer.

[@marc-io]

I love this. Software engineers and computer scientists were fed up of human clients. It's time for everybody to struggle building their own broken apps. In the meantime we can move to other things 👍Also fixing the broken apps people will build with this thing is going to be the next multimillionaire business sector, for the ones who can bear it.

[@snorch6697]

Or looking it from another point of view. Now you as a developer can sell your apps to companies billing full time when you only require a morning to do them.

[@IAmAlorel]

for the ones who can bear it.

[@3litepker]

@@snorch6697 For a dev it's no good building an application that is so limited and cannot scale. One of the fundamental points in programming is to be able to write scalable applications which is what takes a real engineer to figure out. As soon as you start introducing complex bespoke features to this, it's no longer going to be a morning but more like a month.

[@Monica-70]

We are using SharePoint online and have a document with links directly to various sites. What would be a compelling case to build PowerApps for approximately 13 processes versus a page with columns & rows with links?

[@mumpecydrone8788]

i really enjoyed this tutorial. does power app give you an api for your ai app so you can add it to maybe a web app?

[@patlecat]

MS Access reinvented ;)

[@varunemani]

Could'nt Agreed more. Glad someone said it as it is!

[@speedhaven]

That's awesome 😮😮

[@BrianHynds]

What's the point of releasing all these How-To videos using Copilot if no one can actually try it themselves?

[@krypt0n1t3zgaming3]

Agree, I have requested preview, I see the features enabled in the admin center under the environment but not in the canvas app or PowerApps main landing page.

[@allenzhang7407]

@@krypt0n1t3zgaming3 Same here!

[@marvnl]

Same!

[@chrisalmighty]

Lol, same thing I have been asking myself lol 😂 😂 😂. It's frustrating and soon I got fed up. It's useless.

[@shane4103]

I think it's more like marketing materials to showcase the copilot feature which then can justify the price.

[@MisterBanks1]

I love power app and Interesting but property drop-down it’s difficult to understand. And right side bar uncomfortable to use.

[@antonysanjup.m882]

Codes my weakness 🚀

[@VaayuPawan]

I subscribed ☺️

[@jdavid82]

I don't want to use my work email for experimenting with this, why can't I use my personal account?

[@NeoInTheMatrix680]

Impressive

[@atmorozhenka]

It will be more interesting when I can create another Power App using the current Power App.

[@DigitalDiveWithNaresh]

This is nice. I was thinking the same.

[@ko-Daegu]

cool another tutorial of things we can't use like for the last 4 months, seems like a trend with Microsoft, for their VC and investors pleasure

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for your comment. Copilot capabilites are currently being rolled out for Power Apps Studio.

[@susa8401]

Fr. That's why I hate Microsoft products.

[@corazonstudios2529]

Good morning, thanks for this great video ❤ pleas I would like to know which software you used to create this tutorial video

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for your question. We used the Adobe Creative Cloud suite primarily to put everything together. Demos were captured using Techsmith Camtasia 2023.

[@Esico6]

The last low code software was abandoned by MS. Think thats was because of patent breach. Forgot they name though.

[@tonya3308]

Great videos! Do you know how to turn the Comments off when using the Edit mode in PowerApps?

[@snperu732]

Computer scientists the only people to create something that could take over their jobs

[@ko-Daegu]

cycle of life

[@Krko0o]

For centuries we were inventing and loosing previous jobs.. Without it you'd still be grazing the wheel 😀 But yeah, it's kinda scary..

[@ko-Daegu]

@@Krko0o I heard once that 60% of jobs now didn't exists in 1940's

[@user-ht8gl5it7n]

Hello Emma Cooper, please I want to create a domain or educational website and I have tried and researched for a month until now and I failed, your way is easy I hope you help me in that and thank you in advance I hope a quick reply. *(

[@waynelast1685]

building the app might be easy... signing up and interacting with Microsoft is the complicated part.... I just tried to do it.....and appears there is a 30 day free trial so it will take me a lot of time to just figure out how to get started.

[@sayotisolusiiot]

same here

[@SpagmanAus]

Getting a tad frustrated. These CoPilot videos are great but how far away is it for all customers, and what licensing will be required?

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for your comment. Copilot capabilites are currently being rolled out for Power Apps Studio.

[@SpagmanAus]

@@MSFTMechanics AND what licensing will be required on top of the existing ones?

[@BrianHurn]

@@SpagmanAus At this point, all of the Copilot capabilities appear to depend on the use of Dataverse, which has its own licensing model.

[@JackOfTrades12]

It's cool that it helps with the model, but I really want to automate the app development with copilot. Model building is easy. Understanding FX is the barrier for canvas apps.

[@latioms]

great

[@vikramsamak]

Interesting....

[@gerardmcnally]

Copilot is going to cost money isn't it? Even for yearly subscribers. When will it be released?

[@sachinkumart]

I think you guys should first focus on improving the ux/ui of the app, the apps that are designed in the power apps are not visually appealing and are hard to make visually appealing

[@varunemani]

Could'nt Agreed more. Absolutely.

[@BrianHurn]

If you Google "Modern controls coming to canvas apps," you'll see the new look and feel that is available to day in preview.

[@PubgSpeed-wl8yo]

Microsoft has always had a design problem. Their head designer creates Microsoft's design with a file and sledgehammer, not a paintbrush. I am a designer myself and am very sensitive to all their visuals. They are good on the inside, but the exterior is very far from modern design.

[@sachinkumart]

@@PubgSpeed-wl8yo Agreed 💯, even their marketing materials where they show these apps don't look like the real ones because they know the actual apps are not visually appealing.

[@PubgSpeed-wl8yo]

@@sachinkumart It seems to me that the head of this department, some old grandfather with his mind set, is stalling progress in their company in terms of appearance and navigation. Their navigation changes from service to service, it's like coming home and the front door is always out of place. How can you not understand the simple fact that their entire service should be in a unified style, not each in their own.

[@piotrrybka318]

Why getting Power Apps is so difficult? I cannot buy this service with any of my private emails, even the one in my own domain for which I pay. Why are you making it so diificult for everyone: both private users and developers. I would actually both use and develop Power Apps, and I'm willing to pay for that, but I can't. Why? And do you have something for people like me?

[@ahmedd.masoud6809]

When this would be released!!!

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for your comment. Copilot capabilites are currently being rolled out for Power Apps Studio.

[@kimailis]

is that the table from 2 and a half men?

[@oph1066]

anyone elses screen look nothing like that? I have no copilot box like that just a regular very small search area?

[@davidabraham1969]

1:16 "You'll start by navigating to...." I'm lost already.

[@techroad1497]

I can't believe microsftware quality, I hope it would be different.

[@charliegil2007]

No one has CoPilot so I see this kinda pointless.

[@TheBlackClockOfTime]

Now if my IT would only allow me to do this.

[@Alice8000]

COOOL

[@BTS-le9tn]

Sorry, you'll need to sign up You can access Power Apps using a Microsoft Account after you have at least one license. You may sign up for a free license.Learn More I am getting this everytime what do I have to do?

[@Samudbhava]

does not allow gmail addresses in registration. well. bye.

[@chajam]

what's the point in advertising something that will not be available for users to test?? seems more like to show off "hey I'm the pioneer here" rather than actually wanting to benefit users. having this kind of content is of no use at all when the bigger audience can't actually use it

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for your comment. Copilot capabilites are currently being rolled out for Power Apps Studio.

[@varunemani]

Could'nt Agreed more. Glad someone said it as it is!

[@vaalarivan_p]

5:00

[@leJ226]

the real microsoft copilot are not available so what is this

[@VaibhavShewale]

oh so thats hat this ap does

[@hobableo5640]

😅 there goes my career as a developer into dust.

[@J3R3MI6]

Exactly 😂 it’s over for us

[@3litepker]

If all you know as a developer is to make some tables and a search feature connected to a DB then maybe.

[@hussienalsafi1149]

👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@centillion7]

I will now build a App to do nothing. The future is nothing!!!

[@ariyotech]

You should a video on Russia reseevs then you understand that Russia has money 600 b infact.

[@chrisalmighty]

This sort of content and Co-pilot videos which we can't try out and experiment with makes it unhelpful to be honest. Show something that is ready for users to try out and experiment.

[@MSFTMechanics]

Thanks for your comment. Copilot capabilites are currently being rolled out for Power Apps Studio.

[@sniperzxr]

Where on earth is the ‘Co-pilot’??? Is that only for youtubers or real consumers???

[@tahaelaarag8994]

its part of github, cost 10$ / month .

[@shishirkumarsky]

Maro mujhe maro 😢😢😢

[@fbleite2]

This app destroyed Google's AppSheet, congrats Microsoft

[@93hothead]

build your first app by not actually building anything lmao

[@samezarus]

шляпа кака-то

[@microcodes6887]

R.I.P google 😂

[@fadlialyutubiyyah4505]

Appsheet Wanna be

[@talktomenowxbmc]

Microsoft has a way of dumbing down programming experience. They did exactly the same with MS Access. Most people don't want to use MS Access and the same thing will happen with this approach. No company serious about their business will ever use it. Neither programmers that want to have full control of entire design process. Microsoft what are you thinking?

[@megadisc1982]

Nice review Let's go lads #powergpu #typicalgamer