Huawei: what apps are available on AppGallery?

Each mobile phone depends on an OS, an operating system. Apple iPhones run on iOS, with applications available on the App Store, and smartphones from other brands run on Android, the OS developed by Google, with applications available on the Play Store. Basically, we find a bit the same divide as between Mac and PC for computers.

However, in May 2019, the United States Department of Commerce recommended that American companies no longer work with Huawei. Google therefore ceased its activities with the Chinese manufacturer in June of the same year. And who says Google says Android and Play Store, and therefore YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps and many other applications that make a smartphone without them a bit like a meal without cheese. Or without dessert, if you don't like cheese. If the measure only concerns new models, and the old smartphones still work under Android, Huawei had to find a solution quickly, especially since the brand has a very strong commercial policy, very regularly releasing new models with a quality / often unbeatable prices. An internal solution has therefore been developed: AppGallery.

AppGallery is therefore the Huawei equivalent of the Apple Store or the Google Play Store. A library of applications in which you can find all the tools you are looking for as smartphone users. Messaging, GPS, browser etc... This is how we find Huawei Browser, Huawei Cloud or Huawei Wallet, but also thousands of other applications. Snapchat, Tiktok, Telegram, Opera, Facebook, WhatsApp or even the game

Fortnite

are examples among many others of applications available directly or indirectly (via APKs) on AppGallery.

Google applications soon available on AppGallery?

The vast majority of classic applications are therefore present, even if it is sometimes necessary to go through the installation page of the application concerned (accessible from AppGallery, without having to open your browser therefore). In China, where YouTube and Google are already banned, these "substitute" apps are already very popular and used. But it would seem that Western audiences are more reluctant. So Huawei is putting a new plan into action...

If the United States all seem opposed to the return of the Android license for Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer would now seek to integrate Google into third-party developers on the AppGallery. This would make Gmail, YouTube, Google Maps and their little sisters accessible. An alternative all the more possible since Google wants to continue working with Huawei, and its applications are also available in the Apple App Store, which also runs on another OS. But for this to be possible, the Trump administration still needs to grant the American company a special exemption...

In the meantime, Huawei continues to develop and enrich its AppGalery, and has just released a new smartphone, the P40, with stunning photo mode and available for pre-order on the SFR online store.

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Sources:

Phonandroid, Test-purchases