Huawei AppGallery

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AppGallery is Huawei's official app store.

2022

Citidrive Application Availability

The Citidrive car sharing app appeared in the AppGallery app store. The company announced this on August 11, 2022. Read more here.

Availability of the application "VSK insurance"

The Insurance House VSK mobile application has become available in AppGallery, a branded app store from Huawei. About this company VSK reported April 2022. Read more here.

Information on the requirement of Russian software developers to comply with US sanctions

On April 11, 2022, it became known about the coercion of Russian application developers by the Chinese corporation Huawei to comply with anti-Russian sanctions. In March 2022, Huawei updated the agreement with developers in its AppGallery app store.

According to the source, paragraph 11 has appeared in the document, which states that "You hereby declare and guarantee that you comply with the current laws and regulations of export control, as well as economic sanctions of the UN, the USA, the European Union and other countries.

This agreement must be accepted by every developer who wants his application to be placed in the AppGallery directory.

With the help of this clause, Huawei "imposes on Russian IT companies, Russian banks as well as other large Russian companies (", Yandex"etc.) compliance and enforcement of UN sanctions, the United States, and the European Union.

In March 2022, Huawei did not amend paragraph 11 of the Developer Agreement. This clause has been observed by Huawei developers and partners around the world since December 2019. Huawei's policy is to comply with the applicable laws and regulations of the countries and regions in which we operate, Huawei's response says.

Many Russian mobile software developers, including large companies, were very counting on AppGallery as a replacement for the American Google Play and Apple App Store. Probably, the Chinese store will not be able to justify their hopes.

On April 11, 2022, it became known that Russian applications began to disappear from AppGallery. banks This was stated, in particular,. Otkritie Bank Also, the source did not find applications in the directory. Promsvyazbank At the same time, in particular, Tinkoff^[1] software remains available, in particular,^[2]

Removal of applications of Russian banks that fell under US sanctions

In April 2022, against the background of Russia's special operation in Ukraine, the applications of Russian banks VTB Online, Promsvyazbank and Otkritie, which fell under EU and US sanctions, were removed from the AppGallery application store of the Chinese corporation Huawei. All previously installed applications work in full, there are no restrictions on their use.

Mult Application Availability

Application CARTOON"" on the base HarmonyOS appeared in the AppGallery app Huawei store. The company Digital Television (DTV) announced this on March 22, 2022. More. here

2021

Availability of the mobile application "About"

On December 8, 2021, the mobile application of the food and grocery delivery service ABOUT became available in the AppGallery. ABOUT is a service with support for Huawei Mobile Services. Read more here.

Integration with Product Analytics Platform devtodev

On December 2, 2021, the AppGallery app store and the devtodev product analytics platform completed integration. Developers will now be able to get full analytics on games and apps published in AppGallery. The app store announced this on December 2, 2021.

devtodev is engaged in product analytics and analysis of user behavior based on a variety of data obtained from many different sources, including from app stores. devtodev helps developers learn the path of users in the product, their behavior at different stages, predict revenue and interact with them, and based on the data obtained, it allows you to make optimal decisions to improve applications. In addition, in devtodev, developers can use forecasting tools and evaluate future application metrics against key metrics.

Now such metrics from AppGallery as: Market transactions, Market average check, Market IAP gross, Market IAP revenue, Market updates, Market uninstalls have become available in the analytical service.

We are very happy to integrate AppGallery with devtodev. Now application developers will have access to the most up-to-date information about our platform by key metrics, they will be able to assess all the advantages of placing their products in the AppGallery. We hope for a long and fruitful cooperation with devtodev, as well as for joint research, "said Mikhail Komkov, vice president of Huawei's ecosystem in the Eurasia region.

Integrating devtodev with the AppGallery app store is an opportunity to get key data about the platform and the services that are presented on it, as well as help our customers learn the behavior of app store users. We see in AppGallery an important partner and hope to develop our relationship, which will allow in the future to create great value both for our clients and for AppGallery users, - said Dmitry Kravtsov, CEO and founder of devtodev.

Detecting games with a built-in Trojan

On November 23, 2021, Doctor Web announced the discovery of dozens of games in the AppGallery catalog with a Trojan Android.Cynos.7 built into them, which collects information about users' mobile numbers. Dangerous games were installed by at least 9,300,000 owners of Android devices.

According to the company, Android.Cynos.7 is one of the modifications of the Cynos software module, which is designed to be embedded in Android programs in order to monetize them. This platform has been known since at least 2014. Some versions of it have quite aggressive functionality: they send SMS to paid numbers and intercept incoming SMS messages, download and launch various modules, as well as download and install other applications. In the updated version, which was discovered by viral analysts, the main functions were collecting information about users and their mobile devices, as well as displaying ads.

For the Trojan to gain access to certain data, when launching applications from the Android.Cynos.7, users are asked for permission to manage phone calls.

After the permissions are obtained, the Trojan collects and transmits the following information to the remote server:

• User's mobile phone number
• location of the device, which is determined on the basis of GPS coordinates or data of the mobile network and Wi-Fi access point (if the application has permission to access location determination);
• various mobile network parameters, such as a network code, a mobile country code, and, if there are permissions to access the location, a base station identifier and an international location area identifier;
• various technical characteristics of the device;
• various parameters from the metadata of the application in which the Trojan is built.

At first glance, leaking information about a mobile number may seem like a minor problem, but in reality it can lead to serious negative consequences for users, especially given the fact that the main target audience for games is children.

Even if the phone number is listed as an adult, the fact of downloading a children's game can most likely indicate that the child is actually using the phone. It is very doubtful that the parents will want to transfer the above data about the child's phone not only to unknown foreign servers, but in general to anyone.

The Trojan collecting phone numbers was Android.Cynos.7 found in 190 games hosted in the AppGallery directory. Among them are various simulators, platformers, arcades, strategies and shooters with the number of installations from several thousand to several million. In total, at least 9,300,000 users downloaded them. Some of them are aimed at the Russian-speaking audience - they have localized Russian-language names and descriptions. Others are for Chinese or international audiences. Examples of games in which this Trojan is built:

• The game "The team must kill the warhead" with the number of installations over 8000

• Cat game room with more than 427,000 installs

• Drive school simulator game with more than 142,000 installs
• The game 快点躲起来 with more than 2,000,000 installations

Dr.Web has notified Huawei of the identified threats. As of November 23, 2021, all applications containing the Trojan were removed from AppGallery.

Availability of the Honest Sign mobile application

The Center for the Development of Promising Technologies on November 1, 2021 announced that it was expanding the audience of users of the Honest Sign mobile application. Now it is also released for smartphones of the Huawei and Honor brands and is available in the AppGallery. Read more here.

Availability of Citymobil mobile application

On September 17, 2021, Citymobil announced that its urban mobility service application has become available in AppGallery for Huawei device owners. Citymobil is a full-fledged service with support for HMS (Huawei Mobile Services). Read more here.

Availability of EMIAS Info mobile application

On August 16, 2021, Huawei Consumer Business Group announced that the EMIAS.INFO mobile application has become available in the AppGallery app store. Read more here.

Mobile app availability Digital2BusinessMobile

BSS on June 29, 2021 announced the release of the Digital2BusinessMobile (D2BM) mobile application for the app store in the AppGallery world. Read more here.

Availability of the Russian Post mobile application

Mobile application the Russian state the mail network operator "" Russian Post has become available in the AppGallery app store. Application is a full service with support for HMS (). Huawei Mobile Services This was reported on April 12, 2021 in the "Post." Russia More. here

Metro Cash & Carry Russia App Availability

January 20, 2021 Huawei Russia announced what mobile application METRO Cash & Carry became available in the AppGallery app store for. smartphones Huawei More. here

2020

AppGallery operates in more than 170 countries and has 700 million users worldwide and 500 million monthly active users. Since its launch in 2018, 2 million developers have joined the platform and 96,000 apps have been integrated. Apps from 18 categories are available in the AppGallery interface - such as games, cars, business, children, food and drinks, health and sports, tools, navigation and transport, news and reading, education, personal topics, travel, entertainment, social, lifestyle, finance, photo and video, shopping.

The number of app downloads amounted to 384.4 billion times

On March 3, 2021, it became known that AppGallery was able to increase its performance by more than 1.5 times in just a year. As of March 2021, 2.3 million developers were registered on the platform, which is 77% higher than in 2019. AppGallery has a global audience of 530 million active users.

As explained, in 2020, applications in AppGallery downloaded 384.4 billion times, in 2019 this figure was 147 billion. This growth was primarily caused by an increase in the number games on the platform: as of March 2021, 500% more games are available to store users than in 2019. Device owners Huawei can now download popular mobile games such as AFK Arena, Asphalt 9: Legends, Clash of Kings and many others.

At the end of 2019, in 25 countries of the world, the number of AppGallery users exceeded 1 million people, and at the end of 2020 the number of such countries increased to 42. We see growth in the markets of Europe, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa. The fact that the number of applications with HMS (HUAWEI Mobile Services) Core support has almost doubled in one year suggests that more and more developers are using Huawei's capabilities. noted Mr. Zhang Zhe, Director of Global Partnership and Ecosystem Business Development at Huawei Consumer Business Group

The audience of AppGallery in Russia is 18 million people, of which 13 million actively use the platform every month. Among the partners of AppGallery are Russian companies, including Sberbank, Yandex and Mail.ru, whose applications are already available in the store.

In 2020, many popular games by foreign and Russian developers were added, for example, the Gardenscapes puzzle game from Playrix, the MMORPG game World of Tanks Blitz from the Belarusian developer Wargaming, Lords Mobile from IGG, Perfect World Mobile from Infiplay, the Standoff 2 shooter from the Russian developer Axlebolt.

In 2020 financial , the direction also actively developed. The largest banks countries quickly reacted to the growth of AppGallery in Russia, and in a short time applications of all key players in the banking sector appeared on the platform, including,,,. VTB Alfa-Bank Opening Sovcombank Huawei owners smartphones have also become available Huawei a service SberPay contactless payment integrated into. Since mobile application SberBank Online launch, the dynamics of the increase in the number of active SberPay users on Huawei devices is 10-15% per month.

For March 2021, Russia is one of the most promising markets in the field of mobile applications, and we are seeing interest in AppGallery, both from Russian users and partners. told Mikhail Komkov, vice president of Huawei ecosystem in the Eurasia region

AppGallery has focused on interacting with developers at the local and global levels. Thus, the store offers users the most relevant applications, increases the number of developers on the platform.

Developers are increasingly turning to AppGallery to access both the audience of an individual country and the global audience of the platform. During 2020 navigation , the HereWeGo app and the Bolt taxi service messengers LINE , and, as well as Viber other applications such as Booking.com Deezer and Qwant, appeared in AppGallery.

As part of the strategy, Huawei uses its expertise in China.

The PicsArt application was one of the first to appear on the Chinese market with the support of Huawei: as of March 2021, it has already been downloaded more than 300 million times on the territory of mainland China. FaceTune 2 and Monthly applications downloaded 2.2 million and 350 thousand times, respectively.

With the help of AppGallery, more than 10 thousand Chinese applications were able to enter foreign markets. The Banggood app, one of the stores, Internet marketing was downloaded 60 thousand times in three weeks as part of a joint campaign with AppGallery, and the app had another 1000 subscribers. Other apps that have been able to reach AppGallery's global audience include Pascal's Wager, Rise of Kingdoms: Lost Crusade and Night of Full Moon.

AppGallery is an ecosystem based on Huawei mobile services. HMS Core allows applications to be integrated across devices, providing convenience and continuity - part of Huawei's broader "1 + 8 + N" strategy.

For March 2021, applications from 18 categories are available to the AppGallery interface, including games, navigation,, transport, and news social networks more. AppGallery already operates in more than 170 countries and has 530 million monthly active users. 2.3 million developers joined the platform, and the total number of app downloads reached 384.4 billion times in 2020.

Availability of the Moscow Metro application

On November 25, 2020, it became known that mobile application "" Moscow Metro became available in the AppGallery app store for smartphones Huawei and. Honor More. here

Availability of the application "My Moscow"

The official mobile application of the mos.ru portal "My Moscow" has become available for download in Huawei AppGallery. This was announced on October 29, 2020 by the Moscow Department of Information Technologies (DIT). Read more here.

Availability of the application for individuals of Bank Saint Petersburg

On October 15, 2020, Huawei Russia announced that the Bank St. Petersburg mobile application for BSPB private customers can now be installed on Huawei and Honor phones. Version 5.0.1 appeared in the AppGallery app store. Read more here.

Avito Application Availability

October 8, 2020 Huawei in Russia announced what mobile application Avito became available in the official AppGallery app store to all owners and. smartphones Huawei Honor More. here

Qiwi App Availability Wallet

QIWI on October 2, 2020 announced the release of the QIWI Wallet app for Huawei and Honor devices. Read more here.

Availability of Renaissance Mobile Bank application

The Renaissance Credit mobile application has become available in Huawei AppGallery. This was announced by Bank Renaissance Credit on September 28, 2020. Read more here.

Availability of VTB My Investments application

The mobile investment platform VTB My Investments is now available in the official AppGallery app store to all owners smartphones Huawei and. Honor This was VTB announced on September 1, 2020. More. here

Availability of VTB Online application

In the official AppGallery app store, which is available to owners smartphones Huawei and, Honor appeared from the mobile application bank -. VTB The VTB online bank announced this on July 30, 2020. More. here

Availability of Lukoil Filling Station application

On July 3, 2020, it became known that mobile application "" is LUKOIL FILLING STATION now available to all owners smartphones HUAWEI HONOR in the official AppGallery app store. More. here

CardsMobile App Availability

On April 2, 2020, Huawei announced that the contactless payment service Wallet Pay became available on the latest flagships of the HUAWEI P40 series - by the start of their pre-order on the Russian market. The service works in the Wallet application (developed by the St. Petersburg technology company Cardsmobile), which at the beginning of April 2020 can be downloaded from the AppGallery application store. Read more here.

Availability of all Yandex applications

On April 8, 2020, it became known about the full integration company mobile applications Yandex in the AppGallery app store. Now popular apps are available on all smartphones brands and. Huawei Honor The AppGallery app store Russia is actively developing in: since August 2019, the number of integrated local applications in the AppGallery app store has increased 8 times.

As part of this integration, the following services and applications will be available to users of Huawei devices:

• Yandex.Taxi
• Yandex.Drive
• Yango Ride-Hailing Service
• Yandex.Food
• Yandex.Navigator
• Yandex.Maps
• Kinopoisk
• Taximeter
• Yedadil
• Yandex.Disk
• Yandex.Browser
• Yandex.Zen
• Yandex.Music
• Yandex.Electric trains
• Yandex.Mail
• Yandex.Weather
• Авто.ру
• Yandex.Translator
• Yandex.Search
• Yandex.Market
• Yandex.Metro
• Yandex.Real Estate
• Yandex.Flights
• Yandex.Toloka
• Yandex.Launcher with Alice

As of to data Mediascope February 2019, Yandex services have become the most popular resources by total audience on mobile and desktop devices in: RuNet their average daily coverage among the population of 12-64 years old living in 100k + cities is 47%. The integration of Yandex applications into AppGallery is a solid step towards building a sustainable ecosystem for the comfortable daily life of every user of HUAWEI devices.

As of April 2020, AppGallery is one of the three most common global app stores, reaching more than 170 countries and an audience of more than 600 million users worldwide. More than 1.3 million developers are involved in the development of the platform, increasing the number of available applications and expanding the audience of the store. AppGallery is not only a platform for providing applications, but also a set of services for the efficient and safe operation of mobile devices.

Availability of mobile applications VKontakte and Odnoklassniki

As it became known on March 30, 2020, the company Huawei announced that official mobile applications social networks Vkontakte Schoolmates and now available to users in the AppGallery app store, they can be installed on all existing smartphones HUAWEI and brands on the market. Honor The AppGallery platform Russia is actively developing in: since August 2019, the number of integrated local applications in the app store has increased 8 times.

VKontakte and Odnoklassniki - platforms of the Mail.ru Group company, are one of the most popular social networks in Russia. The average daily audience of Vkontakte is more than 80 million as of March 2020, and the number of registered users exceeds 460 million. According to the analytical platform SimilarWeb, in February 2020, the VKontakte website ranked 2nd in popularity in Russia and 13th in the world, and the Odnoklassniki social network ranked 6th in Russia and 23rd in the world. App integration in AppGallery is an important step towards building a sustainable platform for the comfortable daily life of every user of HUAWEI smartphones.

At the end of March 2020, AppGallery is one of the three most common global app stores, reaching more than 170 countries and an audience of more than 600 million users worldwide. More than 1.3 million developers are involved in the development of the platform, increasing the number of available applications and expanding the audience of the store. AppGallery is not only a platform for providing applications, but also a set of services for the efficient and safe operation of mobile devices.

Huawei pays developers tens of millions to build apps

In mid-January 2020, it became known that Huawei is starting to pay developers to create applications for the company's operating system - Harmony OS. Thus, the Chinese manufacturer is accelerating the development of its own ecosystem in order to reduce and completely eliminate its dependence on Google services.

Huawei held a conference in London at which it announced the allocation of £20m ($26m) to British and Irish developers creating software for the Huawei App Gallery catalog.

To further attract the interest of developers, Huawei announced that it charges only a 15% commission on sales in the App Gallery, while Apple and Google have it at 30%.

Jamie Gonzalo, vice president of consumer services at Huawei's European division, says the company aims to create a less intrusive ecosystem of applications compared to those run by Silicon Valley IT giants. To do this, for example, Huawei promises less "spam" in the form of notifications.

It's very good in terms of privacy. Advertising is not important to us, "he said.

Jamie Gonzalo added that developers will be able to advertise their apps on the home screens of custom smartphones. In what form this will be implemented, he did not specify.

By the beginning of 2020, there are about 600 million active users of Huawei mobile devices in more than 170 countries, 68 million of which live in Europe. So far, most Huawei smartphones run on the open version of Android, but the company plans to transfer its equipment to Harmony OS. One of the company's executives said that the platform will be fully ready for installation on all devices by mid-2020.^[3]

2019: Huawei rushed to fill with apps after disconnecting from Android

On June 10, 2019, it became known that Huawei began pushing software developers to host its Huawei AppGallery products. The Chinese company began to actively expand the range of its app store after Google blocked it from accessing the official version of Android with built-in Google services, including Google Play.

Huawei has begun sending letters to developers offering to join the AppGallery community, which, according to the company, has a monthly audience of 270 million users. It is also noted that 560 thousand developers create their products for this catalog, and the number of smartphones with access to AppGallery is measured at 350 million.

The developer is promised "full support" in exchange for agreeing to join Huawei's web store, but it is difficult to understand what help is being discussed. The company only indicates that developers can get free access to the Huawei Developer portal.

To ensure the smooth use of your application by our users, Huawei undertakes to provide you with full support and help place your application in the AppGallery, the letter says to one of the developers (an excerpt from it is provided by the XDA Developers website).

Meanwhile, it remains incomprehensible for developers of mobile applications to be banned from working with Huawei. On the one hand, they do not sell technology to a Chinese company, on the other hand, applications are monetized through Google advertising tools (which means that this monetization scheme will not be available) and through purchases/payments within applications.

On August 19, 2019, the postponement of sanctions will end, after which the new Android smartphones Huawei will not have Google services.^[4]

2018: The number of developers registered on Huawei AppGallery reached 560,000

Huawei on June 20, 2019 announced that it continues to develop its own Huawei AppGallery, which became available to Russian users at the end of 2018.

As part of the company's mobile services ecosystem, the Huawei AppGallery app store became available outside of China in 2018. As of June 20, Huawei mobile services are used by more than 500 million people in 170 countries. Monthly active audience in 2018 reached 262 million users, exceeding the previous year's figure by 117%. The share of young users aged 18 to 34 increased by 8.3% over the year. The store offers users a wide range of applications and content that undergo a thorough four-level security check.

To support developers, Huawei offers full adaptation and expert technical support, open access to an automated test lab and performance optimization system for Huawei devices. In addition, the company regularly conducts marketing promotions designed to help developers promote their products.

In 2018, the number of app developers registering on Huawei's platform grew by 60% to reach 560,000. In addition, in 2018, the share of individual developers increased by 11%, reaching 29% of their total number. In turn, the share of developers' revenue received through Huawei Mobile Services increased by 100% in 2018.

See also

• Mobile apps
• Mobile Applications (Russian Market)
• Mobile Applications (Global Market)
• Apple App Store
• Google Play Store Google Play Music Google Chrome Web Store
• Windows Store Microsoft Store Windows Azure Store Microsoft Office Store
• Huawei AppGallery
• Global Developer Service Alliance (GDSA)
• Yandex.Store
• Opera Mobile Store
• Android app stores
• SAP Mobile Applications
• Real estate mobile apps
• Mobile applications for personal finance accounting
• Mobile alcohol selection apps

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