Huawei is reportedly inviting Google Play Store developers to publish their apps on its own AppGallery app store. A well-known developer who wished to keep his identity a secret shared the email invitation sent to him by Huawei to join the AppGallery. The email said that Huawei’s AppGallery has “270 million monthly active users” with as many as “350 million phones sold” and half of these sold outside of China. The mail also says that there’s a community of 560,000 developers on their native app store. This report comes after strong hints that Huawei is working on its own operating system called Ark OS that will replace Android. But the most important question that is to be answered is, how will it replace popular apps like YouTube, Gmail, and a lot of others that are used heavily by Android users?
“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.
Subject: [OFFICIAL] Invitation to join Huawei AppGallery
Cher XXX team,
- In the last 2 years, Huawei shipped over 350M phones, about half of them in western markets.
- All Huawei phones have our official AppStore “AppGallery” preloaded globally, with 270 million monthly active users.
- We realized that your great Android App XXX is not yet published in our AppGallery.
- 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.
- We would therefore like to invite you to join our 560k developers community for free, in our Huawei Developer portal.
Huawei has been reportedly working up its efforts with AppGallery to make it a viable alternative to the Play Store