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SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

At Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Together) today, Huawei shared updates on

Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Ecosystem. Delivering his keynote speech titled

"Together, Let's Play with HMS", Zhang Ping'an, President of Consumer Cloud

Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, highlighted its 2020 achievements,

announced that there are 1.8 million developers registered with HMS ecosystem,

doubling that of HDC.2019.  

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"HMS ecosystem is now the third largest in the world, and HMS core achieved a

tremendous improvement. Together with the many Huawei teams, we made the

impossible possible within a year." said Zhang.

HMS – The World's Third Largest Ecosystem

As of August 2020, 96,000 global apps have integrated with HMS Core. HMS Apps

continues to launch globally, with content apps such as HUAWEI Music, HUAWEI

Video, HUAWEI Themes, HUAWEI Reader and HUAWEI GameCenter taking center stage

in various countries and regions.

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AppGallery now has 73,000 overseas apps, up from 6,000 last year, reaching 700

million users worldwide. Local apps and services continue to be on-boarded

everyday - in line with AppGallery's 'Global + Local' strategy - bringing

consumers an all-scenario experience. From January to August 2020, applications

in AppGallery, the top 3 app store, have been distributed for 261 billion times.

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"Global sales of HMS mobile phones grow rapidly since May this year, from the

strong support of developers, partners and especially global consumers. With

that, we invite more developers and partners to join us actively, as we bring

to life your innovations with our fully open capabilities, to benefit more

consumers." said Zhang.

HMS Introduces Five Basic Service Engines

Huawei introduced five basic service engines to global developers, including

search, map, payment, browser and ads.

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HMS search engine is available in more than 170 countries and regions around

the world. Offering an innovative and diverse search experience in over 20

vertical industries including app, sports, finance and more, it supports more

than 50 languages.

HMS map engine has collected more than 180 million pieces of POI information

and open 11 capabilities such as route planning, drag-and-drop 3D scene layout,

full-scene spatial computing capabilities and precise AR walking navigation.

Currently, more than 2,000 overseas apps have integrated with HMS map engine.

HMS payment engine provides developers with global and localised mobile payment

capabilities, helping developers to achieve business success. Since HDC 2019,

the number of overseas applications integrated with IAP services has increased by 619%.

Huawei Browser provides intelligent, accurate and high-quality web browsing

services, as well as support for Quick App distribution.

HUAWEI Ads provides efficient traffic monetisation services for developers, to

achieve further commercial success. It provides efficient traffic monetisation

services for developers expanding into global markets. With over 3,100 overseas

apps connected to HUAWEI Ads, global developers are accelerating their

commercial success.

HMS Core 5.0: Let Every Innovation Come to Life

HMS Core 5.0 is officially launched at HDC.2020, covering open capabilities in

seven main areas including App Services, Graphics, Media, AI, Smart Device,

Security and Systems.

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For Graphics, Computer Graphics Kit provides open capabilities centred around

GPU technology to support game developers with a high-performance rendering

framework and a series of rendering plug-ins to improve game screen rendering

efficiency. Gaming app achieved close to 11% in both increase in average frame

rate and reduction in average power consumption by integrating HMS Core's

Computer Graphics Kit.

In AI area, ML Kit provides abundant text, speech, language, images, as well as

face and body detection service to help developers build AI apps easily and

efficiently. Currently, this feature is supported in six languages: Chinese,

English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Apps integrated to ML Kit can

easily cover all platforms and all devices.

Huawei VR audio-visual platform provides developers with a comprehensive

technical platform to bring a subversive and innovative audio-visual experience

to consumers.

Image Kit open the capability of HUAWEI themes, provides animation effects and

ready-made template, allowing developers to quickly produce creative content.

Thousands of lines of code were required previously to achieve the effect,

after integrated, only two or three lines of code are required, and easier to

set simple parameters to achieve more brilliant creative effects.

Huawei provides global developers with a one-stop, highly efficient operation

service through AppGallery Connect, which includes 68 services – an increase of

27 services since HDC 2019. The number of apps using AGC increased by 90%.

Huawei Mobile Services has set up 6 regional centres, 7 DIGIX LABs, with local

tech experts and operation staff, to provide services for local developers and

partners. Huawei empowers developers in every region to innovate and offers

full support to help them bring their local innovations to the global stage,

allowing HMS ecosystem to flourish at the same time.

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"Stars brighten the future. In the past year, we grew to the world's third

largest ecosystem. We will continue to work with our developer stars from

around the world to let the fire of innovation shine," Zhang added.

SOURCE: Huawei Consumer Business Group

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