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HMS Core 5.0 introduces an AR Engine, Computer Graphics Kit, Accelerate Kit and more improvements
Huawei's HMS Core has received an update to v5.0, bringing along new kits like AR Engine, Computer Graphics Kit, and many other changes! Read on for more!
Huawei Mobile Services, or HMS, is Huawei’s alternative to GMS, and it similarly consists of user-facing applications as well as core background services. HMS provides an experience that is consistent across devices and independent of the platform version. The HMS ecosystem is comprised of HMS Apps, the HMS Core, and the HMS Capabilities that the Core enables through its available APIs. The latest milestone update to HMS Core 5.0 introduces several APIs and improvements to existing APIs.
Huawei's "Apps UP" contest puts up $1 million in prizes for the best apps and games using HMS Core
Huawei's new Apps UP contest is offering $1 million in prizes for the best apps and games that offer HMS Core integration.
The trade restrictions imposed on Huawei by the US have forced the company to lay more emphasis on developing its own products. Over the last year, the company has managed to set up an ecosystem of alternative products to replace all of Google's products that it currently doesn't have access to. These include HMS Core, which is an alternative to Google Mobile Services, Harmony OS, which is a first-party alternative to Google's Android, and AppGallery, which replaces the Google Play Store. But while its ecosystem is almost complete, Huawei still needs the support of third-party developers to get its own services at par with Google's offerings. To do this, the company has been sending developers requests to publish their apps on AppGallery and has announced a new Preferential Policy to give developers a bigger cut of the revenue. Now, in a bid to get developers to build more apps using HMS Core, the company has announced a new contest offering $1 million in prizes for the best apps and games that use the GMS alternative.
Huawei releases its "Contact Shield" API for COVID-19 contact tracing
Huawei has released its new "Contact Shield" API in HMS Core for developers of public health agencies to implement COVID-19 contact tracing.
As many countries around the world are lifting their stay-at-home orders, public health agencies are scrambling to implement contact tracing to limit a resurgence of COVID-19. Several app-based contact tracing solutions have arisen in the past few weeks, some of which are based on Google and Apple's Exposure Notification API, and now developers of public health agencies have access to another COVID-19 contact tracing API: Huawei's Contact Shield API.
Huawei can't launch new Android smartphones with Google apps before May 2021 as Trump extends trade ban
The US Administration has extended the trade ban on Huawei till May 2021, preventing the company from launching new devices with GMS for another year.
The last few smartphones launched by Huawei and its sub-brand Honor don't come with Google Mobile Services (GMS) or the Google Play Store. Instead, they feature Huawei's own alternatives to these services, namely Huawei Mobile Services Core (HMS Core) and Huawei AppGallery. This is due to the fact that on May 15th, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 13873, declaring a "national emergency" under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, in order to limit the ability of U.S. companies to do business with entities deemed to be national security threats, including Huawei and its subsidiaries. The executive order was scheduled to lapse this month, however, a recent report from Reuters reveals that it has now been extended for another year.
Easily integrate Huawei Mobile Services into your Unity game with the HMS Unity Plugin!
If you are looking to integrate Huawei Mobile Services into your Unity game, this HMS Unity plugin will let you easily integrate HMS. Read on for more!
Huawei Mobile Services, or HMS, is Huawei’s alternative to GMS, consisting of user-facing apps as well as core background services. The idea behind Huawei Mobile Services is to provide an experience that is consistent across devices and independent of the platform update. HMS Ecosystem has seen its monthly average users increase from 420 Million globally in July 2018 to a huge 600 Million by December 2019, while developers registered on this platform grew from 450,000 to 1.3 million in the same time period, and HMS Core app integration grew from 20,000 apps to 55,000 apps. According to additional figures revealed by Huawei as of December 2019, HMS Core has a global reach of 600 Million users in more than 170 countries (including China).
HMS Core on Android is Huawei's alternative to Google Play Services
HMS Core on Android is Huawei's attempt at providing functionality similar to GMS Core and Google Play Services. Check out how the company aims to do so!
The Huawei Mate 30 Pro is objectively one of the best hardware releases of this year, featuring practically every meaningful innovation in the phone world so far, and introducing a fair few of its own. However, despite offering one of the best sets of features available on an Android smartphone, it cannot be recommended to a large swathe of users. And the blame for such an exclusion lies solely on the political situation between Huawei and the USA, which has forced the company to release an otherwise-excellent piece of hardware without the most crucial bit of functional Android: Google Play Services. The world could do nothing but watch as an Android giant attempted to figure out its way in a Google-less world. Huawei needed functional and reliable alternatives for itself and its users, and it needed them yesterday.