Yesterday, a developer outside the media xda-developers revealed: he received an invitation mail from Huawei. This message invitation Android developers to join HuaWei AppGallery, namely Huawei app store.
Message content pointed out that in the past two years, Huawei has sold more than 350 million mobile phones, of which about half are in Western markets. All global Huawei phones come preloaded with AppGallery, to reach 270 million active users per month.
Huawei declared his intentions: "We are aware of your Android App XXX not yet published in our AppGallery" and therefore invite developers to join AppGallery, and promised to provide full support to this end.
At the same time, Huawei also invited developers to join Huawei has 560,000 members of the developer community.
E-mail reads as follows:
Subject: [OFFICIAL] Invitation to join Huawei AppGallery
Cher XXX team,
- In the last 2 years, Huawei shipped over 350M phones, about half of them in western markets.
- All Huawei phones have our official AppStore “AppGallery” preloaded globally, with 270 million monthly active users.
- We realized that your great Android App XXX is not yet published in our AppGallery.
- In order to guarantee a smooth usage of your App for our users, Huawei is committed to provide you with full support, to help you publish your App into AppGallery.
- We would therefore like to invite you to join our 560k developers community for free, in our Huawei Developer portal.
Huawei's move is not surprising that developers had also received a similar email from Amazon, was invited to publish applications in the Amazon Appstore. Although there is no direct evidence, but the nature of the matter may be completely different, at this time node, it can be said that Huawei face of the blockade, following the launch of yet another alternate chip, Hong Meng registered trademark of active coping behavior.
Foreign media raised concerns: "Google Play Store top 15 free applications there are 13 developers from the United States, Huawei and therefore can not provide these applications, Facebook and Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger and other applications for mobile phones Huawei will no longer be pre-installed on the phone. " "To make matters worse, Strategy Analytics forecast sales of Huawei Jiangzai 2020 decreased by 20%."
To convince developers to build a new ecosystem is certainly difficult, Huawei obviously take some time. But after a series of blockades, even if Google also made to the US government to restore support for Huawei's petition , this one is destined to be independent road going was up.