On June 24, the Apps UP2022 Huawei Global Application Innovation Competition officially opened. With the theme of “Together We Innovate”, the competition aims to develop and innovate together with global developers, develop more applications that can organically integrate people, devices, and scenarios, build a consistent application experience, and create applications that connect all things with intelligence and billions of connections. ecology. The Huawei Global Application Innovation Competition, which has been held for two consecutive years since 2020, has attracted nearly 10,000 developers around the world to submit nearly 10,000 innovative applications, and has gradually become a fertile ground for global developers to realize their dreams.
until now,HarmonyOS It has been applied on more than 240 million smartphones, tablets, watches, smart screens and other devices, becoming a digital base in the era of the Internet of Everything. Only openness can rapidly promote technological progress. Wang Yue, President of Huawei’s Terminal Cloud Service Application Ecology BU, said: Huawei has always adhered to the strategy of full-scenario and smart life, and designed “1+8+N” around five scenarios: smart office, sports health, audio-visual entertainment, smart home, and smart travel. HarmonyOS is the link between hardware and applications and services. In order to provide consumers with a better innovative experience, we hope to bring together the innovative power of developers around the world to create a smart full-scenario experience and application, bring Huawei’s smart device capabilities to more consumers, and jointly explore the digital future.
2022 Huawei Global Application Innovation CompetitionThere are five competition areas in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, and China. There are awards such as the Best Application Award, Full Scenario Innovation Award, Most Social Value Award, and Campus Innovation Award. The global bonus is more than one million US dollars. , to inspire more fresh blood to integrate into the fertile soil of HMS global ecology. The competition consists of 4 links: registration and submission of works, preliminaries, public review, and finals in sub-competition areas. The collection of works will be officially opened on June 24. This competition invites global technical experts, senior investment institutions, CEOs and founders of Internet companies, senior technology media people and representatives of non-profit organizations and other professionals in many fields to participate in the review, providing global participants with the most professional and Forward-looking guidance.
Award design upgrade to encourage more applications to use HMS CORE and campus developers to join
In terms of award setting, in addition to the Best Application Award, the Most Social Value Award, the Full Scenario Innovation Award, and the Technology Women Award, two new awards, the Best HMS Innovation Award and the Campus Innovation Award, have become the highlights of the competition. Continued progress can only be achieved by maintaining innovation. The purpose of establishing the Best HMS Innovation Award in this competition is to encourage more developers to implement more new applications and continue to enrich the wisdom of all scenarios by using a variety of new capabilities and new services opened by HMS. experience.
The Campus Innovation Awards are specially created to encourage college student developers. As early as 2019, the Huawei Campus Developer Program began to take root in major universities in China. Student developers have accumulated rich practical experience under the empowerment of HMS ecological open technical capabilities, and inspired many excellent applications. The setting of the campus innovation award provides a stage for college student developers to compete with global developers, and also encourages the development enthusiasm of campus developers and protects their development achievements. It is believed that the HMS ecology will gain more young power and burst out fresher and lasting vitality.
Added overseas special awards to promote the global localization of HMS ecology
In order to further strengthen the application and development of HMS ecology in different regions of the world, the competition also specially set up overseas special awards, such as the Best Arabic Application Award in the Middle East and Africa Division, the Best Game Innovation Award in the Latin American Division, and the AG Tomorrow in the Asia Pacific Division. Star Award, etc., Huawei and overseas developers jointly gain insight into localization needs and take root in the HMS ecosystem around the world.
Incentive policies are added to support the efficient operation of applications
This year’s competition also added a number of policy supports to developers at different stages. In addition to various incentives such as Huawei app marketing resources and HMS Core payment ability vouchers, outstanding contestants can also receive AppGallery Connect Serverless resource support.
In order to further encourage the developers of the Chinese division to participate actively, the competition specially provided the Huawei Developer Academy discount course for the Chinese division developers and added the Huawei Shining Star Traffic Voucher incentive to help the winning applications in the subsequent application cycle of listing, daily operation and promotion. Moderately efficient operation.
Continue to open up HMS ecological technology capabilities to facilitate full-scenario smart experience
After two years of competition, nearly 10,000 developers have participated in the Huawei Global Application Innovation Competition, and a number of excellent and socially valuable applications have been produced. The data disclosed at the launch ceremony shows that Huawei has more than 5.4 million registered developers worldwide. Since the launch of HMS Core 6 globally in July 2021, there have been more than 203,000 applications integrated with HMS Core globally.
It is hoped that the Apps UP contest will make developers’ ideals a reality and become an incubator for innovative applications. The Huawei HMS ecosystem will also continue to provide developers with a broad stage, embrace diversity, create more possibilities for the full-scenario smart life of hundreds of millions of users, and create a new era of intelligent interconnection of all things and all-encompassing renewal.