Last month, Huawei faced the situtation which it hoped to avoid but was getting prepared to face since past year or so — getting banned by the United States. The Trump administrator banned US-based companies and technologies from getting involved with the Chinese telecom giant.
Soon after the announcement, Google was among the first to obey the order and announced that it has halted all business dealings with Huawei. This was a major blow to the world’s second largest smartphone maker given that it relies on Google’s Android operating system to power its smartphones.
The company was working on its own mobile operating system based on open source Android which is now expected to get launched by September this year. However, getting banned by Google also mean no longer access to the Play Store for apps.
Earlier, the company was reportedly in talks with Aptoid to include it on Huawei phones as a Play Store alternative. Meanwhile, to ensure that its devices have access to a flourishing app ecosystem, the company is requesting developers of popular Play Store applications to get them to publish their apps on EMUI‘s pre-installed AppGallery app store.
A developer, who wished to remain anonymous, reached out XDA-Developers to share an email sent by Huawei. The email invites developers to join AppGallery which is claimed to have “270 million monthly active users” on over “350m phones,” about half of which are sold outside of China.
The email promises that developers will be provided with “full support” to help them publish their app on AppGallery. However, the company has clearified exactly what kind of support will be provided to developers.
As per the reports, the Chinese company has been pitching app makers from last year to build software for a new Huawei app store outside China. The company had even talked with European wireless carriers about spreading this new app store even further.
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