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Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

You're reading from  Learn Microsoft Power Apps - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Sep 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801070645
Pages 702 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Authors (2):
Matthew Weston Matthew Weston
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Elisa Bárcena Martín Elisa Bárcena Martín
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface 1. Introducing Power Apps 2. Creating Your First Canvas Power App 3. Creating Apps in SharePoint 4. Publishing and Leveraging in Power Apps 5. Exploring Controls 6. Exploring Formulas 7. Exploring Reusable Controls 8. Working with Data 9. Introducing Connectors 10. Using GPS in Power Apps 11. Working with Images and Barcodes 12. Securing Your Power Apps 13. Working Offline 14. Using Power Automate with Power Apps 15. Using Azure with Power Apps 16. Visualizing Data 17. Introducing Artificial Intelligence 18. Introducing Microsoft Dataverse 19. Introducing Model-Driven Apps 20. Creating Model-Driven Apps 21. Exploring Environments and Data Policies 22. Introducing the Future of Power Apps 23. Good Practices for Creating Power Apps 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index
Appendix

Using the camera control

The camera control is one of the controls that directly interacts with the camera attached to the device. This could be a camera that is built into the device itself, for example, the camera in a phone, or it could be a wired camera that is attached to a desktop device. The camera control allows us to directly capture an image using that device and then do something with it in Power Apps.

The camera control can be inserted into the page from the Insert | Media menu, and when it appears on your page, it will immediately start to stream a feed from your camera:

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Figure 11.1: The camera control on the canvas showing a live feed

Within our app, we have the ability to select the camera that we want to take the feed from. The camera selection takes the form of a numerical value, with your primary camera being 0, and then subsequent cameras being numbered from there.

If we take Microsoft Surface as an example, the front-facing camera is camera...

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