-Latest HMS Core updates will help global developers to build an ecosystem for 
the intelligent world 

Today at its annual Huawei Developer Conference 2021 (HDC 2021), Huawei 
announced plans to enhance developer support with updates to its Huawei Mobile 
Services (HMS) capabilities. The updated tools on offer will empower developers 
to create improved consumer experiences and offer a choice of even better, more 
competitive services to users.

As part of the keynote delivered by Zhang Ping'an, President of the Consumer 
Cloud Service, Huawei Consumer Business Group, CEO of Huawei Cloud BU, titled 
"Together to Build a New HMS Ecosystem", he shared that there are now 5.1 
million global developers registered with HMS who have integrated over 173,000 
applications with HMS Core. HMS now houses over 580 million monthly active 
users with over 1 billion devices connected. He also revealed the latest HMS 
Core 6 kits and updates to HMS' five core engine services to help developers 
meet the growing need for intelligent app functions.

"Innovation is key to building ecosystems of the future and developers are at 
the core of it. Huawei hopes to bring together both its open and innovative 
capabilities, as well as the wonderful minds of developers, to accelerate our 
journey towards the interconnected, all-scenario future," said Zhang Ping'an.

HMS capabilities continue to develop at lightning speed with global developers' 
support

In 2018 when AppGallery and HUAWEI Music were first available overseas, HMS 
only had 560,000 registered developers globally. With HMS Core 4 being made 
available in 2019 as Huawei announced its plan to build a global mobile 
ecosystem, 1.3 million developers joined hands with HMS and made use of its 14 
core capabilities. By 2020, HMS Core 5 brought about 56 capabilities across 7 
categories, as well as five core engine services to 2.3 million registered 
developers globally. Now, the HMS ecosystem continues to have a firm standing 
as the third largest mobile ecosystem in the world.

In the first three quarters of this year, AppGallery distributed over 332.2 
billion applications globally to Huawei's 730 million end users – a 13% 
increase year-on-year. Quick Apps distribution also exceeded 11.5 billion, 
representing an 188% increase year-on-year.

Cross platform capability of HMS Core 6 empowers developers to enhance their 
apps

HMS Core 6 has announced several new kits for developers to help them to create 
more competitive functions for their apps following its launch in July. It 
offers a total of 69 Kits and 21,738 APIs. Compared to HMS Core 5, the latest 
release features 13 cross-operating systems open capabilities and 8,747 new 
APIs.

The AV Pipeline Kit, 3D Modelling Kit, Video Editor Kit, Audio Editor Kit and 
5G Modem Kit are among some of the recently launched Kits available to 
developers, supporting those in the media, graphics, artificial intelligence 
(AI), copyright protection and system domains. Huawei also upgraded the 
existing services, such as Computer Graphics Kit and Network Kit, to meet the 
growing need for intelligent app functions and further empower its partners. 

In the media domain, HMS Core 6 opens up 11 capabilities in total, adding new 
video and audio editing capabilities. Video Editor Kit is a one-stop toolkit 
that can be easily integrated into an app, equipping it with versatile video 
editing functions like video import/export, editing, rendering, and media 
resource management. Its powerful, intuitive, and compatible APIs let 
developers easily create a video editing app for diverse scenarios. Audio 
Editor Kit provides a wide range of audio editing capabilities, including audio 
source separation, spatial audio, voice changer, noise reduction, and sound 
effect. This serves as a one-stop solution for developers to create 
audio-related functions in their apps at a lower cost with ease.

In the graphics domain, HMS Core 6 has added or enhanced 7 open capabilities, 
with the 3D Modelling Kit being the highlight. This AI-based kit supports 
one-click photo collection and automatic 3D model generation, which increases 
model production efficiency with minimal professional experience required. 
Additionally, the Computer Graphics Kit has debuted the "volumetric fog" 
rendering technique. This new graphics feature uses the real-time ray tracing 
feature of Scene Kit to make the dynamic reflection of mobile game objects more 
realistic. The AR Engine environment light tracking supports real-time Ambient 
light to enhance the shadowing fog effects, something especially useful for 
cyberpunk-style games.

For AI, Huawei introduced SignPal Kit. This kit converts text into sign 
language gestures and facial expressions in real time with over 90% accuracy, 
benefiting those with hearing loss and making communication barrier-free for 
them.

The full range of HMS Core capabilities empowers developers to create quality 
apps with its intelligence, contextual and scenario-based solutions across 
multiple smart devices including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, wearables and 
audio products. These open capabilities can also be used to create apps running 
on Android, HarmonyOS and iOS by using cross-platform development frameworks 
such as React Native and Cordova.

Updates to HMS core engine services encourage intelligent app functions

To meet the growing demand of its users and developers, and to continue to push 
the boundaries of intelligent app functions, Huawei announced new updates to 
its HMS Core engine services through Huawei Cloud's aPaaS service. 

Zhang Ping'an added, "Our goal is to update these core engines into cloud 
services to better serve global developers."

Petal Search and Petal Maps Platform will both receive updates over the coming 
months and will be available to developers as a cloud service, demonstrating 
the commitment to providing developers with the most innovative tools. 

Huawei has brought state of the art updates to its well-loved Petal Search; 
Petal Search 2.0 will be the next-generation AI multi-modal search engine, 
offering an innovative search experience in over 20 different industries 
including news, videos, shopping, flights, local businesses and more. As well 
as supporting over 70 languages, Petal Search is available in 170 countries 
across the world. 

With Search as a Service, Huawei fully opens Petal Search capabilities through 
the device-side SDK and cloud-side APIs, enabling ecosystem partners to quickly 
provide the optimal mobile app search experience. With an average of 8 billion 
searches per day, Petal Search allows partners to efficiently distribute 
content to users through Huawei's proprietary UniBox management platform.

Petal Maps is another example of Huawei technology helping developers to meet 
the high standards of Huawei users. Today's conference reflected on how Petal 
Maps has collected more than 260 million pieces of POI information (up from 180 
million) and 690 million addresses (up from 470 million), assisting developers 
to meet the positioning requirements across new scenarios. Available in over 
140 countries and regions, Petal Maps was awarded with the Red Dot Design Award 
for its interactive experience and now has an estimated 10 million cumulative 
users. 

Petal Maps' upgrade will see the platform equipped with even more capabilities, 
including high-precision positioning, topographic map display, diversified map 
interactive experiences, in-depth data search, high-quality lane-level guidance 
and Map Studio. To make the platform even better for developers, Petal Maps 
Platform included flyTo to its map display so developers can customize their 
map requires for users to enjoy a more realistic and immersive search 
experience.  Map Studio is now available for overseas developers so that they 
can customise maps with custom templates and style editor tools. The platform 
is also offering new and improved privacy features, with Huawei committed to 
protecting its users' data.          

Today's annual HDC 2021 gave Huawei the chance to re-establish commitment to 
its developers, showing the adaptations it can make to ensure its services 
remain innovative and exciting.

Soource: Huawei

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