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I've put a lot of work into what I've been developing and some of the pages are quite heavy and run slowly. I know powerapps is considered SaaS so it should be running on a VM somewhere when I'm developing apps. Does it still run on the VM when a user is running it on their phone or tablet?
Hi @Anonymous
I'm not sure about PowerApps running in a VM, but I think that PowerApps operates in a way that's different to how you might imagine.On a mobile device, the user installs the IOS or Android player on their device. This player app loads the PowerApp that the user wants to run. Once the app loads, it will run locally on the device. At runtime, PowerApps will connect to whatever web services that it requires to retrieve data and to carry out other server related tasks.Because the app runs mostly on the client, this provides PowerApps with offline working capabilities. Both the mobile and web based players use JavaScript to run apps. Often, app builders might attempt to retrieve data using queries that cannot be executed on the server (ie, a non delegable query). In this instance, the client will carry out the filter or search operation locally. This is a typical example of the client performing a resource intensive operation.Does that sort of answer your question?
Good Morning @timl,
It does, thank you so much!
Janelle
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