Apps for everyone: updates to Power Apps pricing and licensing

Ryan Cunningham, Director PM, Power Apps, den 1 juli 2021

This week we’re wrapping up our fiscal year, a year of unprecedented growth for Power Apps. It’s a good moment to reflect on how far we’ve come together as a community and what it means to take the low code movement to the next, even larger scale. Today we announced on the official Microsoft Licensing blog that we’ll be making some changes to the price of Power Apps this Fall – reducing our prices for both the Per User and Per App plans and simplifying Per User in the process.

Canvas app layout containers are now generally available

Emma Cooper, Senior Program Manager, den 29 juni 2021

We are excited to announce the general availability of the container, horizontal container and vertical container layout controls in canvas apps! These controls help you automatically reflow and resize controls within them to enable easy, no expression layouts in canvas apps.

Read NFC tags with Power Apps on iOS and Android

Larry Knibb, den 18 juni 2021

Power Apps adds support for reading NFC and HF-RFID tags in Canvas apps.

Canvas source code tool integrated with Power Platform CLI

Greg Lindhorst, Principal PM Architect, den 17 juni 2021

The open source tool for packing and unpacking a Canvas app is now available in preview through the Power Platform Command Line interface.

Announcing updates to the Power Platform VS Code Extension and the Power Platform Command line

Kartik Kanakasabesan (HE/HIM), Principal Program Manager, den 17 juni 2021

Today we are announcing updates to the Power Platform VS Code extension and the Power Platform CLI, check out the new features and give us feedback

Advanced lookup experience in model-driven Power Apps

Srihari Srinivasa, Senior Program Manager, den 16 juni 2021

Lookups are a core component of model-driven apps, as they help bring underlying data relationships in Microsoft Dataverse to life. Advanced lookup helps end users explore and find that data easily, so they are more productive with data-entry tasks.

Rename your Power Apps action-based data sources

Lance Delano, Principal Program Manager, den 15 juni 2021

Rename of connectors

Announcing Power Query dataflows for Dataverse in Teams (Preview).

Miquella de Boer, Program Manager, den 15 juni 2021

Today we’re excited to announce that you can now use Power Query (preview) [documentation] to load data into the web version of Dataverse for Teams in selected regions and it will be available in all regions by the beginning of July. You can now upload your data from a variety of data sources using the familiar Power Query experience that also ships as part of Excel and Power BI.  The ability to use dataflows in the Teams client will follow soon!

June 16 Power Apps Community Call: COE in Teams, Gantt Charts and how to build digital escape rooms

Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, den 12 juni 2021

June brings the Power Apps Community call a trio of amazing speakers and topics. Krishna Vandanapu covering how to get started with the Center of Excellence application and best practices in Dataverse for Teams. Terho Antila walking through how to get create and using Gantt charts in Power Apps. Agent 008 aka May Alhajri walking through how to create digital escape rooms in Power Apps.

Announcing the general availability of Power Apps component framework for Canvas apps

Hemant Gaur, Principal Program Manager, den 11 juni 2021

Today we are happy to announce the general availability (GA) of Power Apps component framework for canvas apps. This release marks a significant milestone for Power Apps to bridge the gap between code-first and citizen developers and offer true no-cliffs extensibility.