Google Thursday launched a developer preview of its upcoming Chrome Web Store – Google’s earlier-this-year unveiled online store, which will offer a wide array of apps that can be downloaded for use with the company’s Chrome web browser and its Chrome OS that will be launched later this year.

Talking about the opening of the Chrome Web Store to developers, software engineer, Michael North, said in a blog: “Since our announcement of the Chrome Web Store at Google I/O, our team has been hard at work preparing for our launch later this year. Today we're making the first step towards this milestone by making available a developer preview of the Chrome Web Store.”

According to the information forwarded by Google, the developer preview of the web store will give the developers the opportunity to upload ‘free’ as well as ‘paid-for’ apps. The preview will essentially help developers experiment with the packaging of the apps, their installation in Chrome, and integration of infrastructure for user authentication.

As per the terms of Google’s Chrome Web Store, developers will receive 95 percent of all sales of ‘paid-for’ apps via the store, after paying up a mere 30-cent transaction fee.

Moreover, along with launching a developer preview of Chrome Web Store, Google also announced some new moves – like a $5 developers’ fee to prevent fraudulent extensions in the gallery, and a domain verification system - towards ensuring the additional security of its developer ecosystem.