Chinese tech giant, Huawei, announced that it has actually reached 1.6 million developers around the world dealing with the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) core, a number that is 76% greater compared to in 2015. Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem is the company’s alternative to a Google ecosystem without services.
The announcement was made at the company’s 19th Internet conference in China on July 23.
HMS is a set of applications and services providing many advanced features like Huawei ID, push notifications, payments and other services from Huawei for its device ecosystem.
Huawei had to double up on the development of the HMS ecosystem when it was affected by the infamous US trade ban. Ever since the Chinese company has not been able to conduct business with most US firms, including Google, except on the basis of a restrictive temporary license which has been renewed many times since May 2019.
HMS replaces popular Google apps and services like Gmail, Maps, cloud storage, etc on your Huawei and Honor phones. HMS also provides third-party developers with tools and services for creating their own apps. With HMS, Huawei aims to do for its own ecosystem everything that Google does for users and developers in the mainstream Android ecosystem.
Huawei also announced that the HMS ecosystem has now reached 700 million users worldwide, which amounts to a growth of 32% on an annual basis. Moreover, the company mentioned that over 81,000 innovative applications have integrated the HMS core open abilities since its inception.
Huawei further revealed that the $1 billion HMS Ecosystem Incentive Program has actually helped it to grow its numbers. Though it was initially developed to improve app advancement, user development and marketing, it has supplied assistance to over 10,000 apps
Huawei has launched new phones without the Google apps and services such as the Mate 30 series and P40 Series.
