From the Microsoft Power Platform blogs: Power Apps app and host objects; Build reliable voice agents; Power Apps code app development; Dataverse skills plugin

In this week's Microsoft Dynamics Power Platform blogs: 

• Power Apps app and host objects explained
• Building reliable voice agents
• AI-assisted Power Apps code app development using GitHub Copilot CLI
• Dataverse skills plugin – build a complete data model with prompts

Power Apps app and host objects explained: How to detect device, OS, and screen info

On the PowerApps911 blog, Shane Young wrote that a question came up in class recently that you may have run into yourself: How do you make your app behave differently on an iPhone than it does on a PC? 

For example, he noted that you might want to open Apple Maps for iPhone users but send everyone else to Google Maps. 

Young stated that this is where the built-in app and host objects in Power Apps come in. They provide useful information about the device, the user's session, and the app itself.

In his post, Young explained what the app and host objects do, how to use the information they provide, and when they can be useful. 

Building reliable voice agents: A practical guide

Writing on the Copilot Studio blog, Jamie Flores stated that there's no doubt that customer-facing AI can have a conversation. The bigger question is whether it can reliably finish the task.