Those are challenging times for Huawei with the company having to stop developing and manufacturing Kirin processors, and their temporary license to get support from Google has recently expired.
But necessity is the mother of inventions, so Huawei has stocked up on chips to give it time to find alternatives and is developing its own software ecosystem. But app developers won’t simply spend time working on apps for the platform without some incentive, so Huawei has launched the HMS App Innovation Contest with one million dollars in prize money. HMS stands for Huawei Mobile Service and looks like the equivalent of GMS, with the app store being called “HUAWEI AppGallery”.
The contest is open to developers in most countries, but unsurprisingly there’s no option for developers in North America (USA/Canada). However, the contest is global and it still looks possible to get a Huawei ID from any country.
The schedule for the five zones is identical:
- June 30 – October 8 (UTC+8) – Registration & submission
- October 9 – October 21 (UTC+8) – Preliminary – A judging panel reviews submitted works and selects 20 works in each region
- October 22 – November 5 (UTC+8) – Public review – Shortlisted works will be exhibited at the contest official website to promote around the world, and their further selections are based on the number of downloads and votes they get
- November (UTC+8) – Finals results announcement for each region
Developers who register for the contest will get a $200 voucher for Huawei Cloud, and a $4,000 voucher after app submissions. This is not included in the prize money, which will be distributed to the developers of the best apps and games in November as shown in the table below for the APAC region.
The cash column indeed adds up to $200,000 per region, and developers will also get a Cloud Resource voucher matching the cash rewards, plus some “Cloud Academy Credits” that should allow you to access online training sessions and get certifications.
Visit the contest page to find out more and enter.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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Speaking of Huawei . Reuters are reporting MIPS has ended up in China ! One of the customers of the Chinese firm now owning MIPS is Huawei .
I doubt MIPS is a real option…
I think it’s easier buying snapdragons or MTKs via distributors
RISC-V is the most open road for innocation. That’s totally open, and they moved their association from USA to Switzerland to avoid any Trump willing (and patent trolls at the same time). Alibaba already made it’s own version that has the same compute power than high end ARM. RISC-V is also very well supported by Linux community. I also hope Huawei will enter in full linux phone market, instead of only continue in the Android one, with myriad of potential google spywares at each places.