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The rollout of HMS can reasonably be regarded as a defensive action by Huawei, which is merely safeguarding its business in the wake of the U.S. trade ban. Nonetheless, it would be a mistake to fail to grasp its broader significance.
HMS marks not just a turning point for Huawei, but also for the entire IT industry in China.
In the past, China's IT enterprises operated within narrow bounds, playing a supplementary role, as dictated by Internet giants in developed countries. This model reserves the lion's share of profits for enterprises such as Google, and leaves up-and-comers such as Huawei scrambling for the leftovers. The rollout of HMS represents the first time that a company from the developing world has sought to overcome its ingrained disadvantages, and in the process, revolutionize the entire mobile service ecosystem.
Moreover, HMS is just a springboard for more ambitious endeavors. With the development of a proprietary mobile operating system, HarmonyOS, Huawei will have built an end-to-end ecosystem that encompasses every facet of mobile computing and development, from the device chipset, to the operating system, and app architecture. HMS will also reinforce the unique advantages inherent in HarmonyOS, enticing developers who are eager to venture into new, and potentially more fertile, terrain.
HUAWEI HiCar Has Joined Forces with HUAWEI HiHealth to Offer In-Vehicle Health Care
HUAWEI HiHealth is a platform which is used by smart wearable devices and health & fitness services. Developers can use it to create apps which provide a wide range of fitness capabilities and services to users who have granted the relevant permissions. The platform also works with partners to find ways of innovating their services, and provides users with a highly-customized experience.
•Open capabilities:
•Fitness: data about exercise types (such as walking, running, cycling, and swimming), and real-time exercise data.
•Health: heart health, sleep, vital signs (such as blood pressure and blood sugar level), and body composition.
•Case studies:
•Huawei helps ZhongAn Insurance (a Chinese insurance company) reduce compensation risks and lower insurance fees for its users.
•Huawei helps Xinchao Tech (a Chinese tech company) to accurately locate users with sleep quality issues.
•Huawei helps the PLA General Hospital to detect atrial fibrillation.
•Benefits: Apps and vehicle hardware that support HUAWEI HiCar can provide proactive, data-powered care and a more innovative experience for users.
•Contact: To find out more, visit the HUAWEI Developers website. If you are interested in collaborating with HUAWEI HiHeath, contact [email protected].
Author: Martin Alvarez，Web Standards Expert at EU.SID (Standards and Industry Development) Huawei Consumer Business Group，shares his thoughts on the compatibility between Quick Apps and digital lifestyles in the 5G era.
5G is envisioned as the ultimate solution to cellular connectivity – promising multi-Gbps peak data speeds with ultra-low latency of just 1 millisecond, alongside a wealth of other improvements. As users get accustomed to these changes, it induces further changes in user expectations – such as for greater efficiency and performance in mobile apps.
However, the technology is still in infancy and imperfect – IDC warns in a whitepaper that enterprises should not fall into the trap of viewing 5G as a simple “plug and play” technology that will deliver increased mobile connectivity. Developers should leverage this transition period to explore how different technologies – such as Quick Apps – can best take advantage of what 5G can offer and adapt accordingly.
In this article, Martin Alvarez shares his thoughts on the compatibility between Quick Apps and digital lifestyles in the 5G era.
What are the major disruptions that developers will experience with 5G technology?
• As users' needs evolve to reflect the faster-paced 5G lifestyle, traditional apps will likely lose favour among mobile users due to the inherent friction in the user journey, including tedious installation and registration processes.
• Quick apps are the perfect complement in the new era due to their easy discoverability, direct access, immediate response, as well as growing capabilities that are on par with traditional native apps.
• This transition between traditional to Quick Apps is likely to meet attraction from both users and developers. Users only pay attention to the appealing and efficient product/service, rather than the underlying technology. Additionally, quick apps are based on frameworks and standards that are popular with developers.
RESILIENCE and AGILITY
As competition within the app industry intensifies, developers looking to stay competitive must be of a certain calibre. This includes being resilient as well as capable of adapting quickly to societal changes and disruptions.
More importantly, businesses and developers must possess the agility to cater to the rapidly-changing users’ demands. As a result, developers will need the support of toolkits and frameworks that are easy to maintain and help them build products swiftly. These tools will have to involve less coding, less complexity in the framework, reusable components, pluggable third-party services.
FRICTIONLESS APPS
As online services’ capabilities continue to improve and expand exponentially, it encourages consumers’ reliance on them for daily tasks. This explains why smartphone usage is at an all-time high at the moment – the devices are needed to even perform the most common day-to-day tasks, such as accessing virtual loyalty cards or viewing a restaurant’s digital menu.
In addition, mobile users only interact with a significantly small number of apps installed on their devices on a regular basis. The fact that the app discovery journey is fraught with friction and pain points further hurts traditional apps’ standing in mobile users’ eyes. On the other hand, Quick Apps are the perfect replacement in the new era due to their easy discoverability, instant access, and growing capabilities on par with traditional native apps.
QUICK RESPONSE
Each individual Quick App is designed to perform one task – this specialization allows the developers to home in on the necessary processes and guarantees maximum efficiency.
Along the same vein, consumers’ expectations will be conditioned to match that high level of speed and efficiency for all other aspects of their interaction with the apps. Thus, it is crucial for Quick App developers to ensure that users can access their services in the timeliest fashion, which will be where 5G comes in. The new generation of network technology would guarantee the provision of the service with the lowest latency while preserving the quality, privacy and security of the service.
BETTER TOOLS
This transition between traditional to Quick Apps is unlikely to meet resistance from both users and developers. Users historically only pay attention to the end product/service, rather than the underlying technology.
Additionally, Quick Apps are based on frameworks and standards – such as HTML-like components, CSS, and JavaScript – that are popular with the developer communities, encouraging a smoother adoption of the more efficient Quick Apps.
Huawei proudly supported and sponsored the Hack Cambridge Atlas 24-hour event which took place in the heart of Cambridge on 22-23 January 2022. This year’s event was the 7th iteration of the successful student-run hackathon which saw teams hack together, network and learn at the event workshops. The hybrid-event which is endorsed by the University of Cambridge welcomed over 400 developers in total with those who were unable to attend in person joining the event virtually.
The Huawei workshop was a hub of activity throughout the event as developers visited to network and learn. The theme of Machine Learning was covered at the workshop, with developers given insights on how Machine Learning can be used to create life-changing apps. Participants at the workshop had the opportunity to take a close look at the case study of Storysign, the app powered by Huawei AI that translates words into sign language, opening the world of reading to deaf children. Wearable tech was also on the agenda at the Huawei workshop as developers enjoyed a hands-on experience discovering how apps can be developed for Huawei Watches and what future trends are emerging in this sphere of technology.
The theme for the Huawei Challenge at the hackathon was related to climate action and sustainability, with participants encouraged to create a mobile app that used Huawei Mobile Services to promote an innovative and sustainable approach to help United Nation sustainability Development Goal 13 (Climate Action). The winning project was CarbonSee, an app built on HMS Core that allows users to accurately track and understand their carbon footprint with the power of Machine Learning. By scanning photos of every-day grocery shopping, the app gives a sense of which items contribute the most and least to climate change, helping inform the user’s actions to lessen their climate impact.
This year’s event was the first hybrid hosting of the hackathon since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and there was a sense of enthusiasm and excitement from the developers, sponsors and organisers. The event concluded with an award ceremony after the completion of the Expo in which the various teams presented a demo of their work and had the opportunity to view the innovative projects of other participants. Huawei Developers Advocates provided support and guidance to young developers and look forward to assisting them in showcasing their work at HSD events in the near future.
About Huawei Student Developers
Huawei Student Developers (HSD) is a global program for college and university students who share a passion for new technology. Students from undergraduate and graduate programs that are keen to develop and grow as a developer are welcome to join this new and innovative programme. https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/programs/hsd/
The idea is based on optimizing the interaction between users and sites' support. This is necessary for users to work for the platforms and for the platforms to work for the users.
At the moment, the most important thing that worries me is the way to optimize the user's communication with the sites. Yelp/Google/Glassdoor/etc have a huge audience and it's impossible to cover all this flow of users and their opinions or reports only by internal instruments.
Profit for the user: to pay money and not waste time on solving your specific (or not so) problem.
Profit for sites: the effectiveness of solving external issues + templating requests according to the criteria of the site itself.
So, if someone likes the idea, please share your fascinating experience communicating with the support of one or another site.