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The key services are Huawei ID, Huawei Cloud , AppGallery, Themes, Huawei Video, Browser, and Assistant. Huawei Quick Apps is the alternative to Google Instant Apps. [5] [6] By January 2020, over 50,000 apps had been integrated with HMS Core. [7] Its rival, Google Mobile Services has 3 million apps on Google's Play Store. [8]
Huawei’s new and upcoming Android smartphones were denied access to Google Mobile Services. [1] Due to these restrictions, Huawei decided to expand the scope of the Petal Search service to create an independent search engine in response to sanctions that barred Huawei from using Google Mobile Services.
Huawei AppGallery was launched in 2011 in China and in 2018 internationally. [2]In May 2019, Huawei was added to the Entity List by the US Department of Commerce, effectively banning the company's software products from gaining access to Google Mobile Services (GMS), Google Play Store and other such applications. [5]
Huawei on the blacklist meant that it was not allowed to use any US hardware or software. However, the unofficial Google Play App that was developed by a Chinese developer, enabled users of the device to download and install android apps. [9] However, the unofficial Google Play App was eventually removed. [10]
Functionally, the revoked Android license means delayed Google updates and, for Huawei's future devices, no access to apps like Gmail or the Play Store.Google confirmed the report on Saturday evening.
Google Mobile Services (GMS) is a collection of proprietary applications and application programming interfaces services from Google that are typically pre-installed on the majority of Android devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
This list of most-downloaded Google Play Store applications includes most of the free apps that have been downloaded at least 500 million times. As of 2024, thousands of Android applications have surpassed the one-million download milestone, with a significant subset reaching even higher thresholds.
On December 9, 2021, at The Game Awards, Google announced that Google Play Games beta would launch in early 2022, bringing Android games to Windows PCs and laptops. [10] The minimum specification requirements to run Google Play Games are currently Windows 10 or later operating system with an integrated graphics card and quad-core CPU that can access Google Play Games beta (previously octo-core ...