We have a Canvas App connecting to D365CE (and Azure Blob Storage) used by about 200 field based users. The App is used throughout the day, typically left open all day (though possibly in the background) with periods of inactivity interspersed with short bursts of activity during customer interactions.
Despite lots of optimisation and tweaking, performance is still poor with some things seemingly out of our control (e.g. after the App 'sleeps' it seems to take 30 seconds or so to wake and reconnect to D365 to return results) and sometimes updates to the Power Apps player via the Play Store can introduce new bugs or negatively impact app behaviour.
One idea doing the rounds is to redevelop as a Native Android App that connects to D365, but I am not seeing much info online about people doing that or of how that compares to a Canvas Power App. Anyone here have experience of building native Android Apps that connect to D365CE?
The App needs to create and update records as well as read, and be pretty much 'real time' (two field staff could try to update details for the same job, so there need to be checks about whether a record has changed since it was last read by the App before an Update is performed) so I think this needs to connect via the API and not to a SQL 'mirror' of the data (a trick that has worked well when we only need to read).
