Chapter 2. Building Your First Odoo Application

Developing in Odoo most of the time means creating our own modules. In this chapter, we will create our first Odoo application and learn the steps needed to make it available to Odoo and install it.

Inspired by the notable http://todomvc.com/ project, we will build a simple To-Do application. It should allow us to add new tasks, mark them as completed, and finally clear the task list of all the already completed tasks.

We will get started by learning the basics of a development workflow: set up a new instance for your work, create and install a new module, and update it to apply the changes you make along with the development iterations.

Odoo follows an MVC-like architecture, and we will go through the layers during our implementation of the To-Do application:

• The model layer, defining the structure of the app's data
• The view layer, describing the user interface
• The controller layer, supporting the...