What is Responsive containers

When you create a canvas app in Power Apps, you specify whether to tailor the app for a phone or a tablet. This determines the size and shape of the canvas provided to build your app. This can create challenges when an app designed for one from factor runs on another form factor. For example, when an app, which is designed for a phone runs in a large browser window, the app scales to compensate and typically looks oversized for its space. The app can’t take advantage of the extra pixels by showing more controls or more content.

To assist with this, Power Apps includes an option for responsive layout containers. When you use a responsive layout, controls can respond to different devices or window sizes, making various experiences feel more natural. Additionally, when you’re working with responsive containers, you can also easily add and reorder controls within and between responsive layout containers. These controls can be easily positioned using Drag and Drop functionality.

Copilot in Power Apps

As with most Microsoft applications, Copilot is changing the way that work is being done. This is no different with Power Apps. Copilot is helping to make the processing, building, and using Power Apps easier.

In Canvas apps, Copilot can be used in two ways:

• App creation: Copilot can assist app makers while designing their Canvas applications in Power Apps. Makers just need to provide a description of the app they want to build, and AI designs it for you. You can even use AI to help you modify various aspects of the application and help with expression writing.
• Assist users: App makers and add a special Copilot control to the individual Power Apps they create that can aid users while they work in the application.

App Creation

The easiest way to use Copilot is through app creation. On the Power Apps home screen, tell Copilot what kind of information you want to collect, track, or show. The assistant then generates a Dataverse table and use it to build your canvas app.

For example, if you were to enter hotel housekeeping, Copilot goes into your Dataverse environment and creates a new Dataverse table with data that includes typical hotel housekeeping tasks.

This process is the initial stepping stone for your completed app. At any point, you can make changes to the app such as modifying the details of the table. You can even use Copilot to continue to edit your app. By providing instructions, such as “remove the room type column,” Copilot helps you to modify your app.