Publishing Online Chrome Extension

All right, so let's get to the what we all have been waiting for publishing to the Chrome Store.

we have created the Manifest file where we specified it.

• Our version will be 1.0.0

• the name of the extension.

So we can see more and let's head over to the web store for Google. Visit the page.

And this is the place where we are going to do some magic.

So, the first thing,

the extension must be packed and bundled into one zip file. So, all the HTML CSS JavaScript, and images. We have, we need to pack them.

So let's go ahead and do that. It must be zip file.

Remember, always to update the version in the Manifest file. Otherwise, you will not be able to

Uploaded to the Chrome web store.

So now we have our ZIP file. So let's go ahead and sign in. If you don't have account create one Google account and sign in.

• When you are signed in, you can access the developer dashboard in the settings in the first thing which will ask you is to pay a one-time fee, the one-time fee is $5 and then you can upload up to 20 extensions here. So you have to first pay this fee. Similar is on if you are publishing an Android application, you have to pay $25, it's one time fee and then you are able to publish applications on the Google Play Store. So when you do that you will be able to add a new item.

And here we will point to the output file and select the zip file, which we just created hit, open and click upload.

Remember

you need to upload the zip file and not CRX file,

Now you can specify a detailed description.

You can see the name of the extension, you can see an icon, if you didn't specify the Manifest file, it will ask you to upload. You can see the screenshots which I highly recommend SD, screenshots are visible when you open an extension.

Which is self-explanatory. But you can also specify if the item is going to use the Google web store payments, which are built-in, or you are going to do some custom payment system such as you will handle the payment by yourself next to the Region's.

If you want to exclude some regions, you can do that over here. The language extension is using whether the extension contains major content analytics. If you're using the Google analytics, you can specify your ID here and it will be tracked and the requirements. It's which are taken directly from manifest but we do not specify any the visibility options are public unlisted or private.

It's important to note that if you choose an extension as in public, you will no longer be able to change it to private.

So think twice before choosing the option over here,

We can see that in the top. We have in-app products. That means you can also make in-app purchases, but you have to link your Google payments Merchants account.

If you have when you publish your changes, it takes around an hour to get your extension ready and visible on the Chrome web store and the window extension will be available. You will see it here. And whether the status is published or impending

Or its Draft when you want to publish a new version you can do. So, also over here and you will go through the exact same process which I just have been through. And the time will take again around an hour to get published. Also, the users will get the update automatically, the browser downloads, the newest updates for the extensions. So that's pretty much it on. How to get ready for Chrome web store and publish your own extension.   Previous      Next