Using the app

When you first launch the PowerApps app, you will be asked to authenticate using the Office 365 credentials that you normally use within the browser. There are a lot of similarities in the user experience between what we saw in Microsoft Teams and what we can see in the mobile app. The first thing we can do is view the list of apps that we can access. Once again, we can filter on MY APPS, All Apps, and Sample apps, as well as search. Once you have identified the app you wish to use, we simply need to tap it, and it will launch:

Figure 4.18: PowerApps available in the mobile app

The app will momentarily display the splash screen before actually being ready to use. Once the app has loaded, you can use it in exactly the same way as you would through the browser, SharePoint, or Microsoft Teams. One of the most endearing qualities of PowerApps is that the user experience is consistent, regardless of the medium in which we use the PowerApp:

Figure 4.19: The phone app that was generated in Chapter 3, Creating Apps from SharePoint, being displayed through the PowerApps mobile app

To exit the app and return to the app selection screen, we simply need to swipe from the right edge of the device and launch another app.

For you to make it even easier to access your PowerApp, your users can make it look like a native app by pinning it to home.