Huawei is Reportedly Asking App Developers To Publish on its AppGallery

Huawei is reportedly inviting Google Play Store developers to publish apps for the Huawei EMUI AppGallery, a month after it was reported that future Android handsets from the Chinese group won't support Google Play Store. From a report: An anonymous developer on Monday showed the email to XDA Developers, with Huawei apparently sending out invitations to join AppGallery and saying it has 270 million monthly active users across 350 million phones, and a community of 560,000 developers. "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," the emailed invitation reportedly says. It also offers access to join the Huawei Developer portal for free, XDA Developers reported.

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[unixisc]

Right! B'cos the People's Republic of China is the most democratic country in the world. B'cos the name 'People's Republic'!

Hint, Huawei users

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

F-Droid [f-droid.org].

Google and Huawei can fuck right off with their monetizing stores.

Re: Use GNU!

[Zero__Kelvin]

It's pronounced with a hard G, so your "clever" audio pun is, as we used say, an EPIC FAIL!!!

Re: Use GNU!

[Zero__Kelvin]

Wrong [gnu.org]. Tis better to remain silent and thought a fool, and all that.

Re: Use GNU!

[Zero__Kelvin]

He isn't saying how gnu, the animal, is pronounced. He is saying how GNU, the FSF project, is pronounced. Sadly I don't even think you are trolling. I think you really are that stupid.

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[mcvos]

What "clever audio pun" are you talking about? Your parent merely repeated standard GNU slogans. If you find them punny, then they're puns that go way back.

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[Zero__Kelvin]

You evidently aren't smart enough to read the first sentence and understand how the OP thought it sounded.

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[mcvos]

On the other hand, I am smart enough to read what it says, understand what it means and refers to, and then not jump to unfounded conclusions and get upset about the conclusions I'm jumping to.

You're mostly just upset about your own interpretation of things. Calm down.

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[Zero__Kelvin]

Are you merely pretending to be stupid, or are you actually too stupid to realize that "What's new, you ask?" was the intended pun? Either way, be sure to FOAD.

Re: Use GNU!

[Zero__Kelvin]

You troll so poorly I suspect you actually are one.

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[mcvos]

You need to lighten up. And stop projecting so much. That toxic attitude can't be healthy for you.

Re: Use GNU!

[Zero__Kelvin]

I like how you have no idea how I feel about it, but conclude I'm angry while simultaneously claiming you are smart because you don't make assumptions. Trust me, I'm not angry. I'm laughing my ass off at you.

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[mcvos]

Then try to act like it. You're acting all upset at everybody over nothing. Lighten up, stop acting like an ass.

Re: Use GNU!

[Zero__Kelvin]

Stop posting idiotic shit and I guarantee I will stop pointing out that your posts are idiotic.

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[unixisc]

Speaking of which, what's the status of FSF's Replicant - that Android replacement that was supposed to only contain Liberated software? Maybe Huawei can have Chinese engineers work on it and actually deliver a product - unlike FSF's ideologues who seem incapable of completing a product these days

Be careful.

[msauve]

If you're a US developer, doing so may bring down the wrath of the feds. I can guarantee 99.99% that lawyer'ing up will cost more than whatever profit you'd get from your app. Same may apply in some other countries. IANAL.

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[sasparillascott]

Good point. The wrath of the Emperor is more appropriate...

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[ls671]

You could repackage your app into a different name and upload it through a VPN and/or make it available on a foreign server. Anyway, I am getting some popcorn and getting ready to watch the next malicious app spreading festival on-line!

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[Anonymous Coward]

The problem is that, as the OP posited, you are doing this for profit and there will be a money trail.
If you try to hide that money trail, the Feds have a name for that. It's called money laundering. The fads are also very good at sussing it out.
  If you get caught it's very serious jail time.

I wouldn't want to try, but if you do I will happily watch the battle.

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[aliquis]

Could make it open-source and "have someone else" upload it.

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[msauve]

Good suggestion for any dev who wants to double their trouble.

Thats Rude

[ghoul]

Considering the US Govt and by extension the Feds are funded using deficit funding financed by China its really rude of them to go after Chinese companies

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[bickerdyke]

Seems like, at the moment, being an US-anything is a very bad idea....

Irony

[VeryFluffyBunny]

Perhaps the irony of this debacle will be that more Chinese app developers will start successfully targeting English speaking users through Huawei, i.e. English versions of their apps & services, thereby reducing the market share that goes through Google? Maybe Android will fragment significantly enough so that Samsung see an advantage in developing their own fork? Then Google will be well & truly screwed.

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[breeze95]

Perhaps the irony of this debacle will be that more Chinese app developers will start successfully targeting English speaking users through Huawei, i.e. English versions of their apps & services, thereby reducing the market share that goes through Google? Maybe Android will fragment significantly enough so that Samsung see an advantage in developing their own fork? Then Google will be well & truly screwed.

How in the world is Huawei going to succeed in creating a viable mobile platform when Samsung, Microsoft, Amazon and others have failed? Heck, China could force every mobile device sold in China to include Huawei OS and it still wouldn't matter much to Android market share. Game over for Huawei plans on being the largest mobile device manufacturer.

compatibility with app ecosystem

[DrYak]

The main question is app compatibility with the dominant ecosystem.

Microsoft,

because by the time Microsoft tried to join the smartphone game, the past glory of WinCE had already been long forgotten.
There were already two different major ecosystems of apps (Android, iOS), and Microsoft was an irrelevant 3rd one.

Why should dev write apps for yet another 3rd OS that isn't popular ? they spend enough resources already developing apps for the big two, it's a waste to throw resources on Windows 10 mobile.

And why would user

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[mcvos]

Not all developers are American. There are a lot of developers who can legally sell through Huawei's store.

Chinese twitter-like Sina Weibo integration?

[fluke11]

Looking through the AppGallery APK, it looks like the client to their application store uses an android library provided by Sina Weibo [wikipedia.org]. Including code from a social media platform doesn't make it seem like privacy is a high priority.

And soon

[Ryanrule]

It will be their app, cloned directly from yours.