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DStv Now is an entertainment app developed by Multichoice for the African market. Users can use it on a wide range of devices encompassing mobile devices, set-top boxes (STBs), game consoles, desktop computers, and smart TVs anytime, anywhere. DStv Now is dedicated to providing secure and reliable digital video content to both individual and family users.
It partners with HUAWEI AppGallery to build more secure and smoother video playback experience for Huawei device users, enabling users to entertain themselves anytime and anywhere. On DStv Now, Huawei device users can download live TV programs for offline playback, find their favorite TV series, movies, and sports events, and choose from local and international channels covering entertainment, news, music, lifestyle, and more.
HUAWEI AppGallery can provide featured and abundant global and local apps for about 650 million Huawei device users in over 170 countries and regions. Multichoice has always been bearing privacy protection and app security in mind when designing, developing, and operating DStv Now, dedicated to providing secure services for users.
DStv Now Integrated AppGallery Connect Safety Detect
Users are concerned about app security, and therefore it is significant for developers to ensure that their apps are secure and reliable. DStv Now is a typical entertainment app released on HUAWEI AppGallery. By leveraging the powerful capabilities of AppGallery Connect Safety Detect, its security has been improved greatly.
Safety Detect is a multi-dimensional open security detection service launched by HUAWEI AppGallery Connect. It detects system integrity, app security, malicious URLs, and fake user accounts, helping quickly build security for diverse apps including entertainment, finance, game, social, and shopping apps.
According to the feedback from the DStv Now's engineering leader, both the video playback experience and security of DStv Now have been improved since the integration with AppGallery Connect Safety Detect.
Safety Detect works in the following scenarios for DStv Now:
1. A user starts watching a video.
2. A user registers a device to allow video playback on this device.
3. A user downloads video content for offline playback.
Advantages:
The engineering leader of DStv Now said that "Using Safety Detect has helped with security and to gain assurance that our clients are using our app on certified devices. This helps root out piracy and assurance that streaming and video playback is being done on devices that are approved by our content providers. It also helps with ensuring a smooth user experience as we develop our features based on certified devices without the worry of catering to user modified devices."
In addition, DStv Now also leveraged HUAWEI AppGallery Connect Advanced Analytics to better understand user requirements, optimize functions, and provide users with more diversified and refined video content and higher-quality services. As one of the top three app stores in the world, HUAWEI AppGallery has an MAU of 460 million and looks forward to working with more global developers to provide secure and high-quality services for users in over 170 countries/regions around the world.
To download DStv Now, visit AppGallery now. For more information, please visit:：
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/mobileservices/appgallery/
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From ride-hailing, navigation and mobile travel
To gaming, streaming, and social media
Mobile apps have become indispensable in daily life
But increased convenience puts sensitive user data at risk
HMS Core Safety Detect offers unique protections
For comprehensive app security with little effort!
What Is Safety Detect?
Safety Detect is an open multi-dimensional security detection service offered by Huawei, that helps developers bolster app security capabilities, based on the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) on Huawei phones, without compromising user experience.
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System Integrity Check (SysIntegrity)
SysIntegrity is capable of checking whether the user device is rooted, unlocked, or escalated for higher permissions, and uses this information to help you determine how and when to restrict your app's behavior to avoid potential leaking of sensitive user information or financial information.
A unique advantage of SysIntegrity is that it is based on the TEE OS, which is built into every Huawei phone (running EMUI 9.0 or later). The TEE OS comes with Huawei's in-house microkernel, which has achieved the prestigious CC EAL 5+ certification, and is the first solution of its kind to pass formal verification. Having integrated SysIntegrity, it can isolate apps for bolstered protection, and provide independent privacy security protection services. For example, services with high security requirements, such as the payment services, are provided with the appropriate level of protection in the TEE OS.
App Security Check (AppsCheck)
When your app has integrated AppsCheck, it can obtain a list of malicious apps on the user's device, which provides a strong basis for high-level risk analysis (for risky/virus-infected apps). Users are then warned of the presence of any risks on your app, or prompted to exit your app. According to the three largest global virus evaluation agencies, AppsCheck can detect malicious apps with a staggering accuracy rate of 99%.
Malicious URL Check (URLCheck)
With URLCheck, your app can determine whether a visited URL contains phishing or malware apps. The check strikes the optimal balance between performance and timeliness, and is capable of detecting a wide range of malicious URLs, such as phishing and Trojan-infested URLs. URLCheck is easy to integrate into your app, and provides trusted, operation-free security services, reducing the costs associated with developing secure browsing services.
Fake User Detection (UserDetect)
Fake user detection is critical for app operations, as the presence of fake operations such as game bots, activity bonus hunting, and malicious spamming, can give your app a bad reputation. UserDetect can identify spoofed devices, based on the device signature and identifier, and identity relevant environmental risks, such as roots, simulators, VMs, device change tools, and anonymous IP addresses. It can also recognize fake users based on screen touch and sensor behavior, as well as prevent batch registration, credential stuffing attacks, bonus hunting, and content crawlers. These safeguards provide your app's users with unmatched peace of mind.
Many popular apps have integrated Safety Detect, such as the app for International News Agency and Radio Sputnik， APUS, a popular browser in India and Southeast Asia, and 1998 Camera in Vietnam.
How Can I Integrate HUAWEI Safety Detect?
Each of the four functions in Safety Detect has a dedicated API that is easy to integrate. For guidance during the integration process, please refer to the HUAWEI Developers website, where you will find the integration guide and other resources for reference, or acquire your answers from HUAWEI Developer Forum.
* HMS Core 4.0 courses produced by HUAWEI Developers are now available on Huawei official channels, including Video Center on HUAWEI Developers.
AppGallery users can now become part of one of the world’s most popular dating platforms.
Badoo, a truly global dating platform with almost 500 million daters across 190 countries and 51 languages, is now available on AppGallery. Based on truthfulness, the app asks users to pledge complete honesty to give them a better chance of finding a real connection with other users and finding that perfect match. The app enables people to chat, video call, meet, and date other users, and is just one of the latest examples of the quality and popular apps that AppGallery aggregates for its 600 million users.
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Badoo is available as a Quick App, an innovative feature unique to AppGallery which enables installation-free apps that provide experiences very close to the native versions. Badoo’s Head of Communications Tristan Pineiro said Quick Apps not only take up much less space on people’s phones and therefore enable improved app performance under heavy loads, they also enable a better user experience.
“In the modern day, daters want a quick and convenient dating platform that can cater for their busy lifestyles, and having Badoo available as a Quick App allows daters to enjoy easy access across different devices and platforms,” Pineiro said.
Furthermore, Badoo integrates Huawei Mobile Service’s Chip-Device-Cloud capabilities to enable optimised in-app functionality and help deliver the smoothest possible dating experience for AppGallery users. For example, Huawei Mobile Service’s geolocation intelligently combines GPS, Wi-Fi, and base stations to give precise user locations and enable daters to meet people around them.
Meanwhile, Huawei’s Push Kit works in tandem with the Quick Apps function, enabling developers to check if push tokens on users’ devices have expired when the app is brought to the foreground. The Push Kit also enables developers to control how and when notifications are sent to users and ensure the correct information is shown when they tap the notification, meaning users have continued access to the latest updates and promotions.
“These days, there are many different online dating platforms, and people want a service that offers a smooth and efficient user experience, as well as being able to date honestly. Listing with AppGallery and integrating with Huawei Mobile Service’s innovative kit means that Badoo can offer both these things, which ultimately helps us reach more users and achieve higher engagement rates,” Pineiro said.
Huawei constantly works on collaborations with the world’s top app developers to create quality apps, and Badoo is one of the latest among 60,000 apps that have utilized Huawei’s advanced technologies and on-device capabilities to deliver superior services and enhanced user experiences.
All applications developed in collaboration with Huawei, along with thousands of other quality apps, are available on Huawei’s open and secure app distribution platform, AppGallery. As one of the top three app marketplaces globally, AppGallery connects 420 million monthly active users throughout more than 170 countries and regions to Huawei’s smart and innovative ecosystem.
AppGallery provides users with more choice and better app discovery options, with thousands of apps across 18 categories including news, social media, entertainment, and more.
To download Badoo, visit AppGallery now. For more information, please visit https://consumer.huawei.com/en/mobileservices/appgallery/
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Video Show, an image and video editing app, has concluded its marketing partnership with AppGallery on a high note. The campaign saw daily downloads increase five-fold and seven-fold in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) and Latin America (LATAM) regions respectively. With the objective of driving app user growth alongside app awareness, the campaign ran for two weeks in the LATAM region and five weeks in the MEA region.
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The Marketing Campaign That Keeps Bearing Fruits
AppGallery is actively working towards becoming the app marketplace of choice for mobile users. To achieve that goal, the team reaches out to developers to engage in marketing campaigns where different parties share marketing resources to elevate the awareness of each other to their respective audiences. This partnership program allows Huawei to provide the support developers need which, in turn, helps AppGallery to provide the best app experience for the consumers.
During this campaign, Video Show integrated two Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) Core Kits, including In-App Purchase Kit as well as Ads kit. The implementation of HMS toolkits within the app allows Video Show to provide an enhanced and smoother app experience for AppGallery users. At the same time, by integrating with HMS Ecosystem, Video Show developers benefit from the operational support that Huawei provides to registered developers.
From AppGallery’s perspective, Video Show was advertised prominently in high traffic spaces, including the top banner as well as the recommended list, which guarantees visibility among AppGallery’s 460 million active users. The high promotional effort was maintained consistently throughout the campaign, with Video Show being featured prominently in different locations to capture the attention of AppGallery users.
“This partnership with AppGallery is nothing short of a windfall for us. We are thrilled with the results of the campaign and are already exploring more ways that we can work with Huawei,” said WU Yi at Shanghai Aiqi Info. “The integration with HMS kits is not only helpful in terms of the development process of the app, it opens up even more resources provided by Huawei. We are really g rateful for the consistently high-quality support that AppGallery and Huawei has provided.”
Due to AppGallery’s marketing support, Video Show’s daily downloads increased five-fold in MEA and seven-fold in LATAM. The growth in daily downloads continued even after the campaign ended, demonstrating the potential impact of AppGallery marketing. In addition, the post-campaign daily downloads, as compared to before, saw a 1.6-time jump in MEA and a 6-time jump in LATAM.
AppGallery – Committed to Helping Developers Succeed
AppGallery is constantly working to remain the open, innovative app distribution platform that is accessible to all consumers. AppGallery understands that it must be committed to both consumers and developers in order to attain this goal. Thus, Huawei has been providing support and resources to help developers succeed including one-stop operational support for developers worldwide covering the entire development cycle, to incentivise innovation and promote ecosystem prosperity.
As the top three app marketplace globally, AppGallery will continue to bring together quality global and local applications. To date, it has aggregated a remarkable catalogue of quality popular applications from around the world, with apps across 18 categories including entertainment, social media, news, and more.
For more information about VideoShow, please visit the AppGallery at https://appgallery.cloud.huawei.com...le=zh_CN&source=appshare&subsource=C101443025
For more information, please visit the Huawei Developer website at https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/ or the Huawei Developer Forum at https://forums.developer.huawei.com/forumPortal/en/hom
The increased accessibility of smart devices has led to a dramatic increase in the number of connected devices per person. However, the presence of different operating systems has led to challenges in ensuring the broad compatibility of features across devices. Developers have to devote inordinate amounts of time and money on creating and maintaining different versions for each operating system. To address this, Huawei has proposed a revolutionary solution, in which distributed technology facilitates broad-based compatibility within an all-encompassing "1+8+N" framework, with the goal of providing users with seamless collaborative features.
The HUAWEI OneHop Kit forms a key pillar in this ecosystem, utilizing NFC to facilitate easier cross-app and cross-device data transfer, helping make cross-device functionality the new norm. The OneHop Kit has been opened to device manufacturers, and will soon be supported on a wide range of smart device products. Following the release of Huawei OneHop Kit on the HUAWEI Developer website in 2019, many app makers and device manufacturers expressed enthusiasm at the opportunity to integrate the kit.
Sparkling New Mobile Office Experience, with Futuristic Collaborations Between Huawei Phones and Laptops. The OneHop Kit revolutionizes the transfer of video and image files, freeing users having to rely on third-party apps and devices. Simply select the file you wish to transfer, tap your phone against the NFC tag on the computer, and the file will be transferred to your laptop in the blink of an eye.
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Smooth Large Screen Projection with Huawei Phones and Laptops. With these two devices, you can project content at will, regardless of the presence of a Wi-Fi network, and with no need to go through a pairing process. Simply tap the phone against the NFC tag on the remote control, and the phone screen will be projected to the smart TV in mere seconds. Projected imagery is remarkably fluid, vivid, and responsive.
Video Continuity with Huawei Phones and Laptops. After an app has integrated OneHop Kit into their apps, it will be capable of transferring and syncing video from one device to another, with astounding ease. Furthermore, users do not have to configure the devices, nor sync the data manually.
Huawei aims to build a fully connected world, with its all-encompassing "1+8+N" framework as a springboard for versatile, and fluid cross-device interactions. Stay tuned for more information about Huawei's cutting-edge connected solutions.
Scan the QR code to visit the HUAWEI Developers website to obtain the development guide and its corresponding SDK.
For details about Huawei developers and HMS, visit the website.
https://forums.developer.huawei.com/forumPortal/en/home?fid=0101246461018590361
Overview
DStv Now is a popular entertainment app owned by Multichoice in Africa. It enables users to watch their favorite video content online or through offline caching. Because the app's developer is committed to providing secure and reliable digital video content to users, they integrated two HUAWEI Safety Detect functions: system integrity check (SysIntegrity) and app security check (AppsCheck). This helped DStv Now to improve video smoothness.
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Challenges
Ensuring the security of an app's running environment is critical to both providing a risk-free user experience and protecting video content. Malicious apps on user devices pose security threats to user accounts and personal information. Knowing this, DStv Now's developer decided that integrating security check capabilities was vital to evaluating the security of devices' environments.
DStv's Technical Director said: "We continuously optimize our app to adapt to different devices. However, we still need to ensure that our app runs on certified devices, to comply with the requirements of some content providers, and offers users a smooth streaming experience."
Solution
Safety Detect is a multi-dimensional open security detection service offered by Huawei. It provides a range of functions, such as SysIntegrity and AppsCheck, to help apps quickly build security capabilities which protect user privacy and security. DStv's Technical Director said, "Safety Detect helps us check whether a device is certified and ensure that the device has not been tampered with." DStv Now calls SysIntegrity and AppsCheck whenever a user registers an account, watches a video online, or caches a video in the app.
SysIntegrity, which is based on a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and digital certificate signature, helps DStv Now check whether the device running the app is secure, for example, whether the device has been rooted. AppsCheck helps DStv Now obtain a list of malicious apps on devices on which it has been installed. If risks are detected during this process, DStv Now can determine whether to restrict the app's functionality, or provide a warning to the user. "Using Safety Detect has helped us improve app security and ensure that users only use our app on certified devices", said the Technical Director of DStv Now. "This helps us root out piracy and ensure that streaming and video playback are done on devices certified by our content providers." The director went on to say, "It also helps us deliver a smooth user experience as we can develop our features based on certified devices, without worrying that our app is catering to tampered devices."
HUAWEI Safety Detect meets DStv Now's security check requirements and enables the app to provide more secure and reliable video content. The technical director said, "After integrating the SysIntegrity and AppsCheck functions, the video smoothness is assured."
Results
Video smoothness is assured.
User accounts are more secure.
Video playback is more secure.