Developer(s) | Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. |
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Initial release | 2011[1] 2018 worldwide [2] | , in China
Platform | Android (open-source), HarmonyOS |
Included with | Huawei and Honor devices [2] |
Available in | Available in 80 languages |
Type | App store, Digital distribution, Mobile game store |
Website | appgallery |
Huawei AppGallery is a package manager and application distribution platform, or marketplace 'app store', developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. It serves as the official app store for the devices running on Huawei HarmonyOS, and is also available for Huawei EMUI and Microsoft Windows via the Mobile Engine emulator. [2] [3]
As of 2022, AppGallery had 580 million monthly active users. [4]
Huawei AppGallery was launched in 2011 in China and in 2018 internationally. [2]
In May 2019, Huawei was added to the Entity List by the US Department of Commerce, effectively banning the company's software products from gaining access to Google Mobile Services (GMS), Google Play Store and other such applications. [5] As a result, Huawei began releasing its new devices with its own AppGallery, in which the apps were programmed with its own proprietary Huawei Mobile Services (HMS).
On August 9, 2019, soon after the US ban, Huawei launched HarmonyOS, first on smart TVs for Honor Vision and Vision S. In 2019 there were 45,000 Android apps using HMS on AppGallery.
During the third quarter of 2020, AppGallery had reached 350 billion app downloads. [2] [6] In 2020, AppGallery had 490 million users in over 170 countries and regions, [2] [7] On 1 March 2021, AppGallery had over 530 million active users.
Then, on June 2, 2021, Huawei launched HarmonyOS 2.0 with AppGallery pre-installed on its own smartphones and tablets. About a week later, Huawei launched a separate HarmonyOS section on its AppGallery to recommend HarmonyOS apps and compatible Android apps. Apps specifically made for HarmonyOS carried a small "HMOS" badge in the right hand corner of the app icon. [8]
On July 27, 2022, during the HarmonyOS 3 event, Huawei revealed that the HMS ecosystem had 5.4 million global developers, [9] up from roughly 1.6 million developers in 2020. [10] In October 2022, AppGallery had 580 million monthly active users. [11]
On January 18, 2024, during HarmonyOS Ecosystem development event, Huawei's President of Device Cloud announced that the HarmonyOS NEXT software system marks the second stage of development for HarmonyOS. By the end of 2024, the company expects an additional 5,000 native apps to hit on HarmonyOS AppGallery and hopes to exceed 500,000 native apps for HarmonyOS in the near future. [12]
On March 7, 2024, it was reported that more than 4,000 apps have joined the HarmonyOS ecosystem on native .APP format apps for pre-released HarmonyOS NEXT Galaxy Edition version system on the incoming HarmonyOS 5 version, since the end of the first quarter of 2024. [13] [14]
On April 17, 2024, it was reported more than 5,000 native HarmonyOS apps have been built for HarmonyOS NEXT at Huawei Analyst Summit 2024 after rotating chairman confirms HarmonyOS NEXT stable version release later in the year. [15] [16]
On April 22, 2024, it is reported that Huawei has 1,000 apps in negotiations, alongside it's 5,000 apps in total planned to be updated by planned September launch announced at HarmonyOS Developer Day HDD 2024 on May 17, 2024. [17]
In 2020, AppGallery had more than 96,000 apps and over 50,000 HMS-enabled apps. [18] [19] During Huawei's "Apps Up" event in 2021 the company announced that 134,000 apps were building on the Harmony platform (using Huawei Mobile Services). [20] By October 2022, AppGallery had established itself as one of the world’s top app markets, with over 220,000 HMS-based Android apps. [11] [21] [22]
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