Set Up Development Environment

Dependencies and prerequisites

• Chrome Canary on Mac and Windows and Chromium Dev on Linux

• Open your preferred text editor. We have an under-development Chrome apps plugin for Sublime.

Set up Chrome

1. Make sure you are using Chrome Canary. Access chrome://version and check if there is a canary keyword at the end of the first line:
   

2. Enable flags in chrome://flags

   • Experimental Extension APIs
   • Enable debugging for packed apps

3. Enable Developer mode in chrome://extensions:
   

Note: Open the chrome://extensions page in its own window and keep it assessible as you work through the lab. You will use this page quite a bit to load and reload the Todo app.

Set up workspace

If you don't have it yet, install git and run:

    git clone git://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-codelab.git

What's next?

In 2 - Create Basic App, you will create your first Chrome App!