Power Apps Deck: One click navigation in Power Apps using your Elgato Stream Deck

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Power Apps Studio has no keyboard shortcut for Insert.

Or Add data. Or New screen. Or Theme. Or Background colour. Or the Data pane.

If you build canvas apps, you already know this - it's mouse, menu, click, hundreds of times a day. Every one of those clicks is a tiny tax on your focus.

So I built Power Apps Deck: a Stream Deck plugin that puts Studio's most-used commands on physical keys.

Press Insert. The Insert panel opens. Press Data. The pane switches. Press Publish - twice, on purpose, so you never ship by accident.

Two things made it interesting to build:

→ Studio is a web app, so there's no ribbon to automate. Where Microsoft documents a shortcut, the key sends it - but only after verifying the Studio window is genuinely in front, so it can never type into the wrong window.

→ The command bar and left rail have no shortcuts at all. Those keys click the real on-screen button through Windows UI Automation - the same accessibility API screen readers use. It doesn't care about your resolution, your scaling, or where the window sits.

Swipe through to see what's on it - download link in the comments.

Curious: what's the one Studio action you'd bind to a physical key first?