Chris Benham Johnson

Category: Mobile Apps

  • Dice Roller

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    I made this simple mobile app to quickly calculate a collection of random dice rolls for tabletop gaming. The app asks for how many dice and also can calculate the number of rolls above a certain threshold, if needed. The app uses animated dice GIFs saved in SharePoint. The GIFS are set to play once…

  • Hexgrid in Power Apps with Location Pin

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    This makes use of the hexgrid UK shapemap detailed in this article. We can make use of the Power Apps mobile client’s geolocation features to establish where the current user is based. As this comes through as a latitude and longitude value, we can correlate this to our shapemaps lat/lon values and try and place…

  • Responsive Date Picker Component

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    The out-the-box date pickers, including the modern control, aren’t especially user friendly, nor flexible to developers, so it’s a prime input type to be rebuilt as a custom canvas component. This date picker is designed to function well in both desktop and mobile canvas apps. Practically all properties are dynamic, reflecting canvas size, orientation, and…