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Short Question: How do I get the list of available Power Apps Themes?

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I am working on a canvas app in which I allow the user to select a theme and save the theme they would like to use. I'm storing the selection in a Dataverse table.

However, the value saved is a string, e.g. "TeamsTheme" or "PowerAppsTheme".

I need to convert the text to the matching theme reference. PowerApps has to be storing the list of themes somewhere.

How can I do the conversion?

Thanks,

Thomas

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Power Apps Pro Dev & ISV

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MS.Ragavendar 6,334 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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@Tom Bishop,

In .Net use of refractor we will get the files from assembly but in the Power Apps does not expose a built-in function to retrieve a list of available themes dynamically.

However, you can manually reference the available themes using the App.Theme property

You can follow this blog accordingly for the use case (https://www.matthewdevaney.com/create-a-power-apps-custom-theme-colors-fonts-icons-controls/) theme creation and mapping of themes to controls.

Hope this helps.!

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Replying to my own post ...

I came up with a workaround for this, which after thinking about it a bit should not have surprised me.

I created a glblThemes collection that has a "Name" attribute and a "Theme" attribute. "Name" is of data type Text, and "Theme" is an object.

Example:

{Name:"TeamsTheme",

Theme: TeamsTheme

},

{Name:"PowerAppsTheme",

Theme: PowerAppsTheme

}

That allows me to look up the theme and apply it.

Unfortunately, it also means I have to update the glblThemes collection whenever I add or remove a theme.

I would much rather do a lookup on the native Power Apps themes collection wherever that resides.

Any input or comments are appreciated!!!

Thomas

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,969 Moderator on at

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Hi @Tom Bishop

So what you are doing is a standard way to do it.

however, what I tell people is put the information either

1) in a list in sharepoint, that you load up on app start or onvisible and populate the collection with at Run time and assign it

2) in an Environment variable and its either already the json you build on or your format.

If you want it to be dynamic thats what you need. But creating your own things in that manner is pretty standard

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Michael E. Gernaey 53,969 Moderator on at

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Hi @Tom Bishop

Can I or @MS.Ragavendar give you any other information than what I stated below? If either gives you the answer, I'd appreciate if you mark it so and maybe a like.

If you have further questions let us kow.

Cheers

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