Huawei AppGallery - From a developers point of view

Due to certain circumstances, Huawei won't be allowed to use Google's services on their Android devices starting soon. This affects us as Android developers and I've been introduced to what that means by Huawei.
I will describe how I see it from a developer's point of view, and what it would mean for the current product I'm working on.

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1. Politics Android & Us Bob Dahlberg Mobile Lead Developer
2. Politics Android & Us Bob Dahlberg Mobile Lead Developer my opinions
3. Politics
4. Trade ban Politics Huawei and Google have become parts of a political trade ban between the United States and China. For more details on that matter I’ll refer you to your trusted newspapers and also Huawei representatives that are here today.
5. Android
6. How? Android How? Well Huawei are not allowed to use any of Googles Mobile Services on devices released from this year and forward. And won’t be allowed to have Google applications.
7. How? What? Android And what applications is that? Google Maps, GMail, Google Play Store, Youtube etc.
8. How? What? Android And what services is that?
9. How? What? Android And what services is that? HMS Core Push Kit Account Kit In-App Purchases Game Service Location Kit Map Kit Analytics Kit Ads Kit ML Kit Connectivity OneHop Kit Share Kit DeviceVirtualization Kit HUAWEI Health HUAWEI HiHealth Kit HUAWEI HiAI HiAI Foundation HiAI Engine HiAI Service HUAWEI AR AR Engine Media Camera Kit Development Tools DevEco IDE DigiX Lab Distribution HUAWEI AppGallery HUAWEI Themes HUAWEI Ability Gallery
10. How? What? Effect Android Google Play Store > Huawei AppGallery IMHO the hardest to convince end users. Trusted & Familiar Fewer apps
11. How? What? Effect Starting Android On P30 alongside with Play Store Super easy for us developers Starting with the Huawei P40… not so simple Ending?
12. Us
13. Us — Me
14. Expressen Me Expressen, KVP, GT, SportExpressen Our google services stack is quite extensive
15. Expressen All services Me Change to HMS inside the app Add a new flavor to our app architecture Extend our CI/CD Have infra environments to test this as well Teams: App, Infra
16. Expressen All services Distribute betas Me We use Firebase App Distribution for our betas. Need to gather test-users specifically for HMS Have onboarding-guides for two systems Teams: App, UX
17. Expressen All services Distribute betas Analytics Me Using GA from all platforms and sites Teams: App, Analytics, ML, Infra, Sales, Site
18. Expressen All services Distribute betas Analytics A/B testing & Feature Toggles Me Using Firebase for A/B testing & Feature toggles Teams: App, UX, Analytics
19. Expressen All services Distribute betas Analytics A/B testing & Feature Toggles In App Purchases Me We have subscriptions for premium content Teams: App, UX, Analytics, Sales, Premium, Services, Infra, Billing
20. Expressen All services Distribute betas Analytics A/B testing & Feature Toggles In App Purchases Ads Me We have ads Teams: App, Analytics, Sales, Services, Infra, Billing, TV, Studio
21. Expressen All services Distribute betas Analytics A/B testing & Feature Toggles In App Purchases Ads Performance Me Firebase Crashlytics Teams: App, Analytics, Customer Support
22. Expressen All services Distribute betas Analytics A/B testing & Feature Toggles In App Purchases Ads Performance Push Notifications Me Push notifications Teams: App, Analytics, Infra, Journalists
23. An other example
24. TVdags Me TVdags - A simple app
25. TVdags Ads Me Me - the developer The guy selling ads
26. Best & Worst
27. Best Best & Worst We get nicely separated code / modules that are service agnostic and abstracted away to the backend.
28. Best Worst Best & Worst It will be a separate new target. Like TV or Wear or similar. When doing an app the question will always arise: Should we support Huawei too?
29. Thank you
30. Bob Dahlberg bob@qvik.com medium.com/dahlbergbob @mr_bob My Presentations speakerdeck.com/bobdahlberg Dongli Zhang zhang.dongli@huawei.com +46-723875739 Jan Tjulander jan.tjulander@huawei.com +46-703726634