Yes - this would give you the ability to create a brilliant app that basically could give you a skinned onedrive/SharePoint library view.
Taking it one step further the ability to cache some of those files would make it really useful for field workers or operational users who need quick access to documents with offline resilience.
I agree this may open an area of development to PowerApps not previously considered. This may be particularly useful in situations where there is a very small number of document creators but a large number of consumers and with a mixed lot of document types (Word, PDF, PowerPoint, etc).
Dear all, we're diligently evaluating some solutions for viewing documents stored in SPO / OneDrive through PowerApps. We'll keep you posted with updates and timelines.
In addition to the above which is needed it would be greatly appreciated if you added a print functionality also. Essentially you should be able to view, edit, and print documents all from inside PowerApps without having to use Flow or a bunch of work arounds.
with the fact you canโt do offline sync with the SharePoint app for iOS, only in onedrive. And fact the layout isnโt particularly great in either of those apps. An ability to have a viewer in PowerApps and make use of all the other great layout, menu tools, it would make PowerApps an ultimate doc reader for field and operational staff.
if there was some way of on a tablet it linking to onedrive offline files(or SharePoint when they fix that) so that it meant that it would always read the current or last synced version, then you would have such a powerful tool
Can we get an update on the status of this. Microsoft not supporting it's own document formats for view is a HUGE gap in PowerApps abilities. This is desperately needed by my company.
Adding @FilipK and @shekz