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Check it and publish

When your app looks right, Studio helps you confirm it's correct, then publish it.

Validate​

Click Validate and Studio checks that every page draws without errors and that your files are set up properly. The status at the top turns green when all is well, or red if there's a problem:

A green status message reading Looks good: 2 pages draw cleanly

Messages from your code​

Below the panel is a console. It shows anything your app prints while it draws, plus any problems or tips Studio found when you validated:

The messages console showing print output and two tips
  • Problems are things you must fix, the app won't work until you do.
  • Tips are gentle suggestions (like "you left the author name as the placeholder").

If something looks wrong on the panel, the message here usually tells you exactly what and where, in plain language.

Validate & Submit​

When everything checks out, Validate & Submit does the last step for you: it runs the same checks, then commits your app, pushes it to your GitHub fork, and opens a pull request to add it, all from the one button.

The first time, git may ask you to sign in through your normal credential manager (the same sign-in as any git push), there's nothing extra to install and no token to paste. Studio then opens GitHub in your browser on the "Create pull request" page; click the green button to finish.

You submit, the team merges

A pull request is a request to add your app, you don't merge it yourself. The CI runs gdn validate on it automatically; once it's green and reviewed, the Glance team merges it and it goes live. You need a fork of the app repo first (that's where your app gets pushed), see Submit your app for the full flow.