Huawei Mobile Services

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Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) is a collection of proprietary services and application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. It is typically installed on Huawei devices running the Android operating system including devices already distributed with Google Mobile Services.

HMS consists of seven key services and HMS Core which supports app development on the platform. These are Huawei ID, Cloud, AppGallery, Themes, Huawei Video, Browser, Assistant. Huawei Quick Apps is the alternative to Google Instant Apps.[1]

By January 2020, over 50,000 apps had been integrated with HMS Core.[2] Its rival, Google Mobile Services has 3 million apps on Google's Play Store.[3] The AppGallery claimed 180 billion downloads in 2019.[2]

In March 2020, HMS was used by 650 million monthly active users across 170 countries.[4]

[5] A Chinese phone manufacturer, LeTV, hosted a smartphone business communication meeting in Beijing on September 27, 2021, to demonstrate its phone, the LeTV S1. This was the first smartphone from a third-party manufacturer to include Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).

HMS on Android and HarmonyOS[]

May 2019 proved to be a significant change to HMS, when Google was prohibited from working with Huawei on any new devices.[6] This also included bundling Google's Apps, including Gmail, Maps and YouTube.[7]

Any new Huawei devices launched after 16 May 2019 were unable to receive updates from Google services and would be considered 'uncertified' meaning Huawei's only solution at the time was to turn HMS into a genuine competitor to Google and incentivize app developers to utilize the platform.[8][9]

HMS is available on the Honor 9X Pro, View 30 Pro, Huawei Mate XS. HMS is also available, alongside GMS, on many other Huawei models launched before the ban.[9]

Huawei promised developers it would take, “less than 10 minutes", to port their app over to HMS - to illustrate the ease of portability between Google's Play Store and the HMS AppGallery.[9]

HMS Core[]

is a hub for Huawei Mobile Services and serves as a toolkit for app development on Huawei devices. The core comprises Development, Growth and Monetizing[10] and was created as a replacement for Google Mobile Services (GMS) Core.[11] HMS Core 5.0 debuted in September 2020[12] and HMS Core 6.0 launched in June 2021 with extended support for Huawei's cloud services.[13]

As of June 2021, the number of registered developers within the HMS ecosystem was 4 million, and the number of apps integrations with HMS Core had reached 134,000.[13]

HMS AppGallery[]

Main article: Huawei AppGallery

The HMS AppGallery has a key rival, Google's Play Store on Android. The HMS AppGallery is available in 170 countries, across 78 languages.[14]

By summer 2019, registered developers to develop apps for the AppGallery grew to 910,000 (from 450,000 the year previous) and Core app integration doubled in the same timeframe.[15]

Reception[]

The reception of HMS is mixed, with the majority of discussion based around the key Google/Android apps which are not yet present on the AppGallery and whether or not this presents a significant problem to users.[9][16] The open development of HMS Core, has been regarded by some as benefiting the Android project as a whole, "If Huawei continues to invest in a holistically open approach ... the result could be that we could all end up a bit less beholden to Google".[17]

References[]

  1. ^ "Huawei Quick Apps is Huawei's alternative to Google Instant Apps". XDA Developers. 2020-01-14.
  2. ^ a b "Huawei invites app developers to board the HMS Core to grab their pieces of eight". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  3. ^ "Huawei HMS has about 45,000 Apps - a LONG way from Google's GMS -". Gizchina.com. 2019-12-25. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  4. ^ Mishra, Yash (2020-07-07). "HMS Core 5.0 launched for the global developers, comes with 7 new kits and services". Huawei Central. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  5. ^ Li, Deng (28 September 2021). "A third party phone makes its 'return' with Huawei Mobile Services". huaweicentral.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. ^ Sottek, T. C. (2019-05-19). "Google pulls Huawei's Android license, forcing it to use open source version". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  7. ^ "Answering your questions on Huawei devices and Google services. - Android Community". support.google.com. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  8. ^ Welch, Chris (2020-02-21). "Google addresses Huawei ban and warns customers not to sideload apps like Gmail and YouTube". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  9. ^ a b c d "What is HMS? All you need to know about Huawei's new mobile ecosystem". Android Authority. 2020-03-01. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  10. ^ Junior, John H. (2020-02-25). "Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core: Replacement of Google's developer libraries, here's everything you need to know". Huawei Central. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  11. ^ "HMS Core on Android is Huawei's alternative to Google Play Services". xda-developers. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  12. ^ "HMS Core 5.0 Debuted on HDC, Opening Up More Capabilities". xda-developers. 2020-09-13. Retrieved 2020-11-25.
  13. ^ a b "Huawei's HarmonyOS already has 134,000 apps, over 4 million developers have signed on". GSMArena.com. Retrieved 2021-06-23.
  14. ^ Pocket-lint (2020-05-18). "What apps can you actually get on Huawei's App Gallery?". Pocket-lint. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  15. ^ "HMS Core on Android is Huawei's alternative to Google Play Services". xda-developers. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  16. ^ Perlow, Jason. "Huawei P40 Pro: Android phone without Google? No problem!". ZDNet. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
  17. ^ Kronfli, Basil (2020-02-26). "Huawei's plan to escape Google could fix Android for everyone". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 2020-07-15.

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