Huawei shared updates on Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Ecosystem. Delivering his keynote speech titled “Together, Let’s Play with HMS”, Zhang Ping’an, President of Consumer Cloud Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, highlighted its 2020 achievements, announced that there are 1.8 million developers registered with HMS, doubling that of HDC.2019. 

Zhang Ping’an, President of Consumer Cloud Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, delivered keynote speech titled “Together, Let’s Play with HMS”

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“HMS ecosystem is now the third-largest in the world, and the HMS core achieved a tremendous improvement. Together with the many Huawei teams, we made the impossible possible within a year,” said Zhang. 

HMS – The World’s Third Largest Ecosystem

As of September 2020, 96,000 global apps have integrated with HMS Core. HMS Apps continue to launch globally, with content apps such as HUAWEI Music, HUAWEI Video, HUAWEI Themes, HUAWEI Reader, and HUAWEI GameCenter taking centerstage in various countries and regions.

AppGallery now has 73,000 local apps, up from 6,000 last year, reaching 700 million users worldwide. Local apps and services continue to be on-boarded every day – in line with AppGallery’s ‘Global + Local’ strategy – bringing consumers an all-scenario experience. From January to August 2020, applications in AppGallery, the top 3 app store, have been distributed for 261 billion times.

“Global sales of HMS mobile phones grow rapidly since May this year and gain strong support from developers, partners, and especially global consumers. With that, we invite more developers and partners to join us actively, as we bring to life your innovations with our fully open capabilities, to benefit more consumers,” said Zhang.

HMS Introduces Five Basic Service Engines

Huawei introduced five basic service engines to global developers, including search, map, payment, browser, and ads.

HMS search engine is available in more than 170 countries and regions around the world. Offering an innovative and diverse search experience in over 20 vertical industries including app, sports, finance and more, it supports more than 50 languages. 

HMS map engine has collected more than 180 million pieces of POI information and open 11 capabilities such as route planning, drag-and-drop 3D scene layout, full-scene spatial computing capabilities and precise AR walking navigation. Currently, more than 2,000 local apps have integrated with the HMS map engine.

HMS payment engine provides developers with global and localized mobile payment capabilities, helping developers to achieve business success. Since HDC 2019, the number of local applications integrated with IAP services has increased by 619%.

Huawei Browser provides intelligent, accurate, and high-quality web browsing services, as well as support for Quick App distribution. 

HUAWEI Ads provides efficient traffic monetization services for developers, to achieve further commercial success. It provides efficient traffic monetization services for developers expanding into global markets. With over 3,100 global apps connected to HUAWEI Ads, global developers are accelerating their commercial success. 

HMS Core 5.0: Let Every Innovation Come to Life 

HMS Core 5.0 is officially announced to commercial use globally at HDC.2020, covering open capabilities in seven main areas including App Services, Graphics, Media, AI, Smart Device, Security, and Systems. 

For Graphics, The Computer Graphics (CG) Kit provides open capabilities centred around GPU technology to support game developers with a high-performance rendering framework and a series of rendering plug-ins to improve game screen rendering efficiency. The gaming app achieved close to 11% in both increases in average frame rate and reduction in average power consumption by integrating HMS Core’s Computer Graphics Kit.

In the AI area, ML Kit provides abundant text, speech, language, images, as well as face and body detection services to help developers build AI apps easily and efficiently. Currently, this feature is supported in six languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Apps integrated to ML Kit can easily cover all platforms and all devices.

Huawei officially launched its VR audio-visual platform, providing developers with a comprehensive technology platform to bring a subversive and innovative audio-visual experience to consumers. 

In the meantime, Image Kit opens the capability of HUAWEI themes, provides animation effects, and a ready-made template, allowing developers to quickly produce creative content. Thousands of lines of code were required previously to achieve the effect, after integrated, only two or three lines of code are required, and easier to set simple parameters to achieve more brilliant creative effects.

Huawei provides global developers with a one-stop, highly efficient operation service through AppGallery Connect, which includes 68 services – an increase of 27 services since HDC 2019. The number of apps using AGC increased by 90%.

Huawei Mobile Services has set up 6 regional centers, 7 DigiX labs, with local tech experts and operation staff, to provide services for local developers and partners. Huawei empowers developers in every region to innovate and offers full support to help them bring their local innovations to the global stage, allowing HMS ecosystem to flourish at the same time.

“Stars brighten the future. In the past year, we grew to the world’s third-largest ecosystem. We will continue to work with our developer stars from around the world to let the fire of innovation shine,” Zhang added. 

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Hyundai Motor Company is leading the digital transformation in the era of COVID-19 and beyond with the launch of ‘Channel Hyundai’, an interactive app for smart TVs featuring multimedia content and a digital interface for customers to experience the brand in a new way.

Channel Hyundai offers various online content and services to give customers direct access to the world of Hyundai from the comfort of their homes.

“Channel Hyundai is our solution to the growing need for enhanced digital experiences amid the global pandemic,” said Wonhong Cho, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer of Hyundai Motor. “Our hope is that watching content on the big screen will bring family members together for a shared digital experience since digital experiences can often feel isolated.”

Hyundai Motor is initially presenting three categories within the app – LIVE, TV and MODELS – with plans to add more features in the future.

The LIVE category offers product launches and presentations on the company’s vision, including the upcoming world premiere of the all-new 2021 Hyundai Tucson, which will be broadcast on the app in a high-resolution video on September 15.

The TV category features videos that cover a wide range of lifestyle topics, from Hyundai’s various partnerships with the art community to its motorsport activities. Hyundai is also planning to produce original content exclusively for Channel Hyundai.

The MODELS category is for those who want to find out more about Hyundai vehicles. The Channel Hyundai app features not only videos but also a virtual interactive showroom that allows customers to get a first-hand virtual experience of key features on Hyundai models.

New online content and services will be added over time to provide customers with an extensive collection of branded content with seamless access over smart TVs. The content is currently in English, with subtitles and other language contents in the making.

The Channel Hyundai app is available on LG and Samsung smart TVs manufactured in 2017 or beyond, and with webOS 3.5 or higher for LG models. Hyundai plans to make the app more widely available on more brands of smart TVs in the future.

The app can be downloaded under the search words “Hyundai” or “channel Hyundai" on LG Content Store or Samsung TV App Store. All content can also be viewed on the Channel Hyundai website at https://channel.hyundai.com.

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Huawei has today shared important updates on AppGallery at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Together). Delivering his keynote speech, Mr. Wang Yanmin, President of Global Partnerships and Eco-Development at Huawei Consumer Business Group highlighted AppGallery’s achievements in the first three quarters of 2020, outlined the comprehensive support Huawei provides for its global partners, and shared success stories to inspire developers.

 “Despite increasing challenges, AppGallery and the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem has continued to show progress this year, all thanks to our global partners. With this strong support and recognition, we will continue to invest in the ecosystem as we build one of the top three app distribution platforms in the world. We are confident that as we continue to work closely with our partners, we can help them to grow and achieve their business goals, especially for those locally popular names who are looking to expand into other global markets,” said Mr. Wang Yanmin.

AppGallery and the HMS ecosystem continue to flourish in 2020

AppGallery now dedicates itself to meet the diverse needs of 490 million Monthly Active Users (MAUs) in over 170 countries/regions. Within the first half of 2020, user app downloads reached 261 billion, underscoring the popularity growth of this app marketplace among users. 
Currently, 1.8 million developers globally have joined the Huawei Mobile Services ecosystem and more than 96,000 applications have integrated with HMS Core worldwide, offering users even more unique experiences. 

Meeting user need by bringing diversified local apps

An underlying priority for AppGallery is reaching the diverse needs of users across different regions and provide them with relevant and quality app services. AppGallery’s ‘Global + Local strategy’ is an innovative approach to app listing that provides consumers with an enhanced experience by focusing on popular local apps. 

Some globally popular apps and services will always be the preferred choice for consumers around the world. With the support of influential global partners, Huawei’s ecosystem continues to grow, with partners such as Bolt, Deezer, Foodpanda, TomTom Go Navigation, LINE, Qwant, and Telegram joining AppGallery to make life more convenient for users. 

Local developers are quickly realizing the wide-ranging benefits of listing with AppGallery as consumers also often prefer their own local apps and services too. The Huawei AppGallery now has more than 70 Nepali Apps along with different categories such as banking, entertainment, health, news, and utilities. Some of the apps that we use daily and its integration in the AppGallery will certainly come as a relief for the potential Huawei customers.

Developers are at the heart of Huawei’s innovation

Partners are joining AppGallery to utilize Huawei’s innovative technology and HMS core, enabling traditional sectors to fast-track digital transformation. Huawei’s fully open HMS Core helps accelerate app innovation and elevate user experience. With these capabilities and services, users will be able to enjoy the differentiated experience from apps, thus bringing more business opportunities to add developers as well.

Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia with more than 67 million active customers locally, partnered with AppGallery to launch its own Near field communication (NFC) contactless payment supported by HMS. Within 11 days, over 21 million users have downloaded the app with 3.2 million installations. 

AppGallery’s full-spectrum support sees partners achieving business success

AppGallery provides full-spectrum operational support for developers worldwide and assists them to unlock new opportunities, such as cross-region operation and global exposure. To date, a number of partners from various regions have benefited from AppGallery. 

TomTom, one of the world’s leading navigation brands, has both of its popular navigation apps TomTom Go Navigation and TomTom AmiGO listed on AppGallery. Through joint marketing efforts with Huawei, TomTom AmiGO saw 22 times growth in download rate; Bolt, a ride-hailing application saw an increase of 136 times in European and Africa downloads from week one to week thirteen; Kumu, a TV Livestream app from the Philippines, worked with AppGallery to launch a Mother’s Day campaign. In the first 15 days, there was a 220% increase in Kumu’s premium users, and its revenue grew more than 40 times.

Huawei pledges to work more closely with developers and partners

Going forward, Huawei continues to expand developer services. Huawei is building three global ecosystem cooperation labs in Russia, Poland, and Germany to serve global developers and provide enablement, testing, and certification services. Five global developer service centers will also be established in Romania, Malaysia, Egypt, Mexico, and Russia, providing local services and platforms to help developers better grow and innovate.

HUAWEI AppGallery has quickly established itself as one of the top 3 app marketplaces globally where users can enjoy a safe finetuned experience. By supporting Nepal based developers in creating exciting apps, local Nepali users will be able to enjoy even more enhanced experiences tailored to their needs.

For more information, please visit the Huawei Developer website at https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/or the Huawei Developer Forum at https://forums.developer.huawei.com/forumPortal/en/home
 

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