Recently took over the needs of Google plug-in development, here will make a summary of their experience, to prevent forgetting, but also for other partners to do reference

Find a good Google how to develop the document, attached to the author of the document source, # Xiaoming students blog park [do] Chrome plug-in (extension) development of the complete walkthrough

How to publish

1. Create and log in to a Google account

2. ToDeveloper Information CenterClick upload new content, here you have to pay in advance

3. Click upload new content, and the popup box as shown in figure 1 will pop up. When dragging in the ZIP package, the secondary information will be verified (Figure 2).

4. Enter authentication twice in the browser as promptedaddress

5. The release here is different from wechat mini program oh, the approval will be automatically released, there is no need to manually publish, so friends need to pay attention to when submitting the review, and the review time is a little long, at least 7 days.

Release Notes

A. Modify the version number of the manifest.json file version

B. The key.pem file must exist and its ID must be the same as that of the Google App Store

C. Manually compress the package into a ZIP file and drag it in

2. Want to get the code for the app store

In the browser search chrome plug-in download will have a lot of online appear, I commonly used is for your reference

Google App Store address

The development environment uses extensions

This module is believed to be used by developers, so make a record here

1. Click on the three vertical dots in the upper right corner of Google Browser to select Settings. Enter the page below and select the extension.

2. Extension page

3.

A. [Package extension], package generation CRX, development environment with the suffix can be changed to ZIP (this zip for CRX change, non-compressed generation), direct installation

B. Zip Decompressed data can be added to the browser extension program by loading the decompressed extension Program

C. Package development environment, use Chrome package, need to take out the key, separate directory and key, key can not be lost, development environment package first move, release back package

Installation errors are common in development mode, and loading an unzipped extension is the least likely to cause problems

CRX > zip > Decompressed