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SHENZHEN, Dec. 7, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- Huawei announces the winners of its global HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest

- More than 3,000 teams worldwide compete for total prizes of 1 million USD in

cash

- More than 100 winners across five contest regions won the highest prizes with

each of $15,000 in cash, angel investment and major promotional opportunities

- Thousands of exciting new apps released on AppGallery during competition

process

- Full list of winners published on the Apps Up 2020 website

More than 3,000 developer teams from five regions across the world participated

in Apps Up 2020, HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest. The final winners are

announced today[1].

The HUAWEI HMS App Innovation Contest for HMS developers was launched in June

in Europe, China, Asia Pacific, Latin America and the Middle East & Africa,

attracting contestants from over 170 countries. The contest spanned more than

100 days, as contestants found innovative ways to use services of HMS Core.

After an extensive public voting phase combined with assessments by our panel

of experts, more than 100 entries have been selected for the following

categories:

-  Best App

-  Best Game

-  Best Social Impact App

-  Most Popular App

-  Honorable Mention

Apps Up 2020 winners enjoy a share of a USD 1 million prize pot, plus potential

angel investment and promotional opportunities. Winners will also enjoy

promotion of their apps on HUAWEI AppGallery, as well as free access to HUAWEI

Mobile Cloud resources and Huawei Developers events, courses and

certifications. Apps Up winners also have the opportunity to exchange ideas

with the competition judging panel.

All contestants already have their apps published on HUAWEI AppGallery, giving

them access to a market of millions of HUAWEI device users worldwide.

Huawei welcomes submissions from a wide range of fields, including physical and

mental health, education, science, agricultural development, environmental

protection, transportation, and public safety. Huawei's aim is to promote apps

that create a new smart-living experience for everyone, worldwide.

Here are a few examples of the type of creative and inspiring inventions

emerged in the Apps Up 2020 Contest:

- Europe: PlantSnap provides a platform for users to share their passion for

plants, nature and the environment with like-minded people around the world.

Powered by HUAWEI Account Kit and other HMS Core capabilities, it is able to

identify plants in seconds

- China: Earthquake Map & Alert App provides real-time and historical

earthquake data sourced from official meteorological websites,helping people

around the globe.It integrates HUAWEI Push Kit.

- Asia Pacific: Spick & Span is an arcade game that encourages players to push

for a cleaner world. It integrates In-App Purchases,Account Kit,Push Kit and

HUAWEI Ads.

- Latin America: SOSMex is a panic button app that enables women in Mexico to

alert their friends and family of their whereabouts, so they know when they are

in danger. The app is built with HUAWEI Awareness Kit, among other HMS Core

open capabilities.

- The Middle East and Africa: The Deaf Sign Language App (ASL) helps users

learn sign language by simply saying a word or phrase so they can communicate

easily with people that suffer from hearing impairment. It integrates HUAWEI

Analytics Kit and HUAWEI Account Kit.

Zhang Ping'an, President of Huawei Consumer Cloud Service says: "We remain

committed to providing developers with more capabilities, IDE and tools,

aspiring to help them make their innovative ideas into reality and bring their

creations to the world. Huawei welcomes all developers to join us in the HMS

ecosystem and looks forward to joining hands with them to shape the future of

technology."

#HMSInnovateforAll

[1] Winners of the Middle East & Africa region will be announced on 8 December

2020

About Huawei Developers

Huawei Developers, a platform as part of Huawei Mobile Services, provides a

one-stop operation support to developers throughout the entire cycle of app and

service development; helping developers to turn ideas into reality with the

full suite of development capabilities available through HMS Core.

With more than 2 million developers worldwide already, the ambition of Huawei

Developers is to connect with global developers to build an open and innovative

ecosystem with shared success.

Apps created on Huawei Developers can bepublished and distributed on HUAWEI

AppGallery, Huawei's app distribution platform and one of the world's first app

stores implementing a developer identity verification system. It also features

a four-layer detection system to ensure app security and leverages proprietary

algorithms to enable useful content recommendations.

About HMS Core

HMS Core is a collection of tools made for Huawei's partners and app developers

to create unique, new experiences that tap into the full hardware and software

capabilities of Huawei devices have on offer. By integrating HMS Core 5.0 ,

developers can quickly leverage Huawei's on-device capabilities. HMS Core are

currently supporting more than 2 million developers, and 55,000 apps worldwide.

For more information: https://developer.huawei.com/en

Keep up-to-date with Huawei Developers:

Facebook: @Huaweidevs

Twitter: @Huawei_devs

YouTube: @Huawei Developers

LinkedIn: @Huawei Developers

SOURCE:  Huawei

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