How to access the `Alice` account on a Parity Substrate developer chain?

Question

The Substrate Collectables Workshop suggests at some point that the developer chain comes with a prefunded account for Alice.

Let's go into the Transfer app, and make a transaction. The default account named "Alice" is pre-funded with a ton of Units.

However, connecting Polkadot-JS to my local --dev chain does not come with an account; also the Transfer app is not visible.

What's the mnemonic seed for the Alice account or how to recover that account? Is there any way?

Answer 1

As mentioned in this post, the seed for Alice is //Alice, however, it's important to select the raw seed option and not the mnemonic seed.

Note, make sure to select the Schnorrkel cryptography sr25519, not Edwards ed25519. The same works for //Bob

Answer 2

As mentioned here Alice raw secret seed is:

bottom drive obey lake curtain smoke basket hold race lonely fit walk//Alice

Answer 3

If the dev accounts are not pre-populating in the UI check out my answer to this question: Where are accounts located in substrate-node-template?

In chain_spec.rs make sure you set your chain type to Development or Local.