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Glitch in Huawei’s AppGallery lets users download paid apps for free

Anurag — Thu, 19 May 2022 08:41:48 +0000

If you follow the tech industry, you’re probably aware that Huawei is in a lot of trouble. The company was subject to a US trade ban in May 2019, which prevented it from working with some of its long-term partners including Google. This means Huawei phones cannot access Google services such as the Play Store. So, the company had to create its own alternative to the Google Play Store called “AppGallery”. However, it is reported that AppGallery is facing a certain glitch that allows users to download paid apps for free.

This vulnerability/glitch has been discovered by Dylan Roussel. He found that the API of Huawei’s AppGallery offers no protection for paid applications. It is reportedly possible to obtain a genuine APK download link for premium apps without even having to pay for it.

To make sure that it wasn’t the issue with just one particular app, Russel tried downloading multiple apps and he was successful each time. However, one game he downloaded had a license verification, which he failed to pass.

Russel even emailed Huawei informing them about the issue and offered them 5 weeks to fix it. Now it has been 13 Weeks and the vulnerability still persists. So, he decided to disclose it publicly.

Huawei’s ignorance can have a grave impact on the earnings of developers who have published their apps in Huawei’s AppGallery. Not only that, but this issue also invites app piracy. Attackers could exploit the API to download a huge number of premium apps without even visiting the AppGallery.

If you’re an app developer with a paid app published in Huawei’s AppGallery, it is advisable for you to implement additional means of protection to your application through DRM, like the AppGallery DRM Service.

Huawei integrates Bolt ride hailing service in Petal maps

Sudhanshu — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 11:49:58 +0000

Huawei, the Chinese tech giant has brought a new convenience feature for its users in Europe and Africa. The company has partnered up with Bolt, the popular ride-hailing service, which was one of the first major brands to join Huawei’s AppGallery. Now, it is about to become even easier for users to access following its integration with Huawei’s map service, Petal Maps.

Huawei customers with smartphones based on Huawei Mobile Services (HMS), and customers who download Petal Maps from Google Play, have now an additional option when they search the directions and length of a journey from one location to another. As well as car, public transport, walking and cycling, they will also see ride hailing.

Once a user clicks on the Boult icon, they will automatically be taken to the Bolt app where they can book a driver, check the driver’s details and distance, and see how much the journey will cost.

The two companies have also collaborated at a software developmental level with Bolt integrating Huawei’s Map Kit allowing it to power the app with personalized displays and interactions for HMS devices.

But that’s not all, Petal Maps has recently been enhanced with new updates, including Lane Guidance which is aimed at helping drivers to enjoy enhanced route planning, and help in complex traffic situations, and Offline Maps, which allows users to take advantage of search and navigation functions, even when they have no signal.

In addition, searching for amenities is easier thanks to its new and improved ‘one-touch’ search functions which show multiple services such as petrol stations, restaurants, ATMs, and convenience stores that are nearby.

So for readers who live in Europe and Africa, do check out these new features offered by the Petal Maps on Huawei’s AppGallary or Google Play store.

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Huawei AppGallery launches Snoop in the UK, an award winning money management app

Sean — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 09:43:08 +0000

The Huawei AppGallery has just announced the launch of Snoop in the UK. The company’s application store has just announced the partnership with an award winning money management app to offer users “powerful money management tools.”

The Chinese tech giant shared the announcement earlier today (26th October 2021). Snoop will use open banking technology to offer users’ tools to better manage their personal finances through a ‘one stop platform,’ which combines user’s various bank accounts, credit cards and transaction data all in a single platform. The service will support more than 50 UK based financial firms working in collaboration with Snoop.

This includes top banking and credit card providers like Lloyds, Halifax, Barclays, HSBC, NatWest and Santander. According to Antony Simm, Co founder at Snoop “Our award winning app uses Open Banking and advanced analytics to help people spend, save and live smarter. The app’s personalized money saving insights can save the average household £1,500 per year and we’re thrilled to be partnering with Huawei to help make everyone better off.”

Similarly, Siri G. Børsum, Global VP Finance Vertical Eco development & Partnerships at Huawei Consumer BG stated that “At Huawei, we’re passionate about providing our users with access to a choice of financial services and apps. By driving competition in the digital financial services space, we’re encouraging this access to choice, by which we hope to increase global financial health overall.”

CrazyLabs launches four new games on the Huawei AppGallery including Tie-Dye and Light it Up

Pranav Sawant — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 04:23:40 +0000

Ever since the launch of Huawei’s own app store, the Huawei AppGallery, there has been a tremendous increase in its application list. With a ton of new games and apps directly coming on the AppGallery, it is no longer a sidelined app downloading platform for Huawei smartphone users. That said, CrazyLabs, one of the top 3 game publishers, has now reached the Huawei AppGallery and launched four new smartphone games on the platform.

CrazyLabs has announced four super-simple games on the AppGallery. These games include Tie-Dye, Acrylic Nails, Phone Case DIY, and Light it Up.

All these games were launched on the Playstore and App store earlier and now with the launch on one of the fastest-growing app stores, AppGallery, its reach has increased. Starting with the Tie-Dye game, it allows you to get a real-life painting experience on a T-shirt. There are multiple levels and colors to choose from giving players an option to DIY the T-shirt as per their likings.

As the name suggests, Acrylic Nails, this game is great for getting your nails done on the go (virtually). It is said to be the most satisfying ASMR app for nail salons in the market. Moving to the Phone Case DIY, it is as simple as it sounds. Players can customize the back of their phones with the help of various tools in the game.

If you are looking for a game to play in between your daily commute to work, Light it Up is a great choice. It is another entertaining game from CrazyLabs that allows multiple actions like swinging, jumping, and flipping to make neon shapes glow in the game.

Other than this, CrazyLabs had earlier launched a bunch of new games like Coin Rush, ASMR Slicing and Soap cutting, Run Sausage Run, and others on the Playstore and App store.

Huawei’s AppGallery gets two new Games as it continues to expand the app store

Jed John Ikoba — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:57:00 +0000

Huawei is striving to expand its AppGallery as it hopes to expand its HarmonyOS ecosystem. The company recently unveiled the HarmonyOS 2, expanding the OS to its entire smartphone lineup. The HarmonyOS AppGallery was revealed to have already got up to 134,000 apps with over 4 million developers. The Chinese tech giant has continued to expand the ecosystem and has now announced the addition of two new exciting games, Manor Matters and Left to Survive.

The addition of the two games is not just delightful to fans because it offers them some more gaming options, but most importantly because it means Huawei has successfully gotten new app developers throwing up the possibility of further expanding the ecosystem.

The two games are developed by gaming developer Playrix and top gaming publisher MY.GAMES respectively. This isn’t Playrix’s first game on the AppGallery. The app developer had earlier published two popular games Gardenscapes and Homescapes. Manor Matters and Left to Survive are presently available to download on AppGallery.

Huawei’s AppGallery remains a smart and innovative ecosystem that allows developers to create unique experiences for consumers. The HMS Core integrated with HarmonyOS allows apps to be integrated across different devices, delivering more convenience and a smoother experience. Thus, you are not restricted to just your smartphones with this new games.

With 134,000 apps already, Huawei’s AppGallery is among the top three app marketplaces globally. Once the Google PlayStore and Apple App Store have more apps. Huawei still has a long way to go, though, before it can play catch up with the two market leaders.

The AppGallery is available to users in more than 170 countries and regions and according to Huawei, the store has over 540 million monthly active users globally.

Choice SDK is an open-source solution that adapts GMS apps for Huawei’s AppGallery

Jed John Ikoba — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 03:14:07 +0000

Huawei first launched the Huawei Mobile Service (HMS) for its mobile phones in 2019 as a response to the U.S government ban which saw the company unable to access Google Mobile Service. While the service has continued to grow over the years, one major challenge is the rich large Android ecosystem that Google has built over the years. Although Huawei has made tremendous progress in its efforts to expand the HMS ecosystem, it is still miles away from Android.

However, hope seems to be in sight for Huawei as a developer partner has created an open-source solution that adapters Google apps for the AppGallery. The solution is developed by developer partner bluesource, Europe’s leading provider of enterprise app solutions. It is an open-source method that adapts GMS apps for AppGallery removing the need to redevelop apps specifically for Huawei’s app store.

The solution is christened Choice SDK and Huawei claims it makes it easy for app publishers to transform their existing apps based on GMS and Firebase frameworks into HMS usable applications. Thus, developers won’t need to create an HMS version of their apps, thus saving cost and time in app development as just little effort is needed for the apps to run on Huawei devices.

The open-source Choice SDK was originally developed for Raiffeisen Bank to help the bank make their app available to Huawei phone users in Austria. Bluesource has since made it available as open-source software so that other brands and developers can get their apps adapted faster, safer and in a more convenient way. Since it became open-source, the Choice SDK has reportedly been utilized by Austria’s national TV broadcaster ORF, Austrian Federal Railways ÖBB, Austria’s Postal Service and deals app Aktionsfinder.

Since it was rolled out in 2019, Huawei’s AppGallery has experienced a massive growth which has catapulted it to become the world’s third largest app marketplace with 530 million monthly active users (MAUs). The company recorded a massive 61.5% growth YoY in Europe to record more than 42 million users. Huawei has offered various incentives ranging from cash to a lion share of revenue from the apps and it worked. Huawei presently has over 2.3 million registered HMS developers with about 300,000 outside China. The platform has increased the number of registered developers to 2.3 million, up by 77% vs last year, and now also counts 300,000 developers outside China. Presently, there are about 120,000 apps integrated with HMS Core, an increase of 118% compared to last year.

Huawei announces €30,000 prize pool for publishing Indie Games on its AppGallery

Balaji S — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 15:10:20 +0000

A month ago, Huawei expanded the AppGallery with Moovit, yet another vital inclusion to the community. In fact, the company is trying its best to widen the universe and the latest attempt is by announcing a special funding program in partnership with Unity. This includes perks like revenue share, VIP support, prizes, and more.

As reported by cnTechPost, Huawei‘s new program is for Indie Game developers. For the unware, games from the indie community are independent and either from an Individual/Small group. Mostly, these teams don’t have a lot of technical/financial support when compared to the big names in the industry.

Hence, Huawei’s commitment to this funding program will help the developers gain the limelight and in turn popularize the AppGallery more. Accordingly, a special incentive will be provided for Games published on AppGallery between November 19 and December 14 through the Unity Distribution Portal(UDP). In case you don’t know, UDP helps developers by distributing games to multiple app stores(incl. AppGallery) through a single hub.

That said, the new funding program for indie games comes with many benefits. The highest of them is a whopping €30,000 prize pool for the 30 chosen games. You can take a look at the benefits of the special program below:

85% IAP(In-App-Purchases) revenue share for game developers for the first 2 years. Usually, it is 70% for AppGallery Developers
VIP technical support and store spotlight.
Top indie games will also be featured on a special ‘Indie Game’ slot on the AppGallery store.
30 indie games chosen will receive Huawei Ad Platform credit worth €1,000. And an account manager to set up the acquisition campaign.

Besides, the advantage of using the UDP is it just requires a single build & metadata profile as you don’t have to create multiple builds of your games w.r.t each App store. Some advantages of using alternative App stores and UDP is it reaches more than 1 billion players, revenue up to $5 billion outside of China.

That said, this is just one of the initiatives to expand the AppGallery ecosystem of Huawei. Introduced way back in 2018 globally, the app store has gained steam after the US ban. As a result, it is currently the third-largest store after Apple and Google counterparts. As per the UDP portal, AppGallery expands to 170+ countries, has 700 million users, and 400 million MAU(monthly active users).

Living to its earlier promise, the company has already brought biggies like Telegram, Hungama, Bolt, HERE Maps to the store. For regions like India, it pre-installs MapmyIndia to distract Google Maps addiction. That said, the Recently added list of Apps also includes Moovit, Booking.com, eSky, Omio, Skyscanner/Turkish Airlines.

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Huawei AppGallery is now the 3rd Largest App Store after Google and Apple

Sean — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:27:26 +0000

Huawei has recently released an online press release regarding its proprietary AppGallery (App Store). In the press release, the Chinese tech giant stated that the company’s App Store is now the third largest App Store after Google and Apple and also talked about its future.

Huawei’s AppGallery has become the world’s 3rd largest App Store

For those unaware, Huawei had faced a ban from the US Government’s Commerce Department back in 2019. The ban had led to many complications in the company’s operations in the region but also banned it from using various technologies and more from its partner companies that were based in the country. One of these was Google, which had to stop providing Android support to Huawei. Since then, the company has launched the Huawei Mate 30 series with vanilla Android and its own HMS (Huawei Mobile Services).

Huawei had to attract various developers for its new HMS platform and through its extension, for the App Store dubbed AppGallery. Now, it has been announced that the company is seeing monthly users over 400 million, with more than 55,000 groups of apps being found in the platform. In other words, a notable feat for a newly launched service is already rivaling industry giants, like Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

As of right now, the Huawei Mobile Services are currently available in 170 different countries and regions and is collaborating with local developers from Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe, and Latin America. The company has also announced that it will be launching a “Quick App” service in the AppGallery which will allow users to try out apps without the need of downloading and installing it first. This will help with storage constraints on smartphones with lesser storage capacities.

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Huawei’s Own App Store AppGallery Is Now Available Globally

Jeet — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 13:25:55 +0000

Huawei, which is the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world, has announced the global availability of its own app store — AppGallery.

Soon, the users of Huawei smartphones will be able to download the AppGallery app store on their devices, no matter which part of the world they reside in. The app store already comes pre-installed with the recently launched P20 and P20 Pro smartphones.

Huawei’s AppGallery comes with five tables, including Featured, Category, Top, Manager, and Me. In the ‘Me’ section, users can control settings and various preferences.

A lot of applications in various categories are aimed at the Asian market, which also makes sense given that the company has a strong presence in the Asian market. Along with apps like Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, the user will also get access to several Asia-focused apps such as Amap for navigation, WeChat for instant messaging and QQMusic for entertainment.

In order to install this AppGallery app store, users will have to enable third-party app downloads and then visit wap2.hispace.hicloud.com, where the app will automatically start downloading. The service can be disabled through Settings menu in the Me tab or could be completely uninstalled.

The company says that its digital marketplace is designed to offer the best of Android to consumers by providing an ecosystem full of high-quality apps. Prior to this global launch of its app store, Huawei teamed up with Sygic and a few other mobile developers in October last year to ensure that it has a presentable portfolio of apps.

After launching its flagship smartphones — Huawei P20 and P20 Pro, the China-based company is now gearing up to launch a new smartphone in May this year, which will be focused on the photography and the artificial intelligence technology.

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