Choice SDK (Software Development Kit): Huawei Open Source Part 2
With this second from the series of articles on the "Huawei Open Source » We will continue our exploration of the catalog of open apps developed by the Technological Giant de «Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd».
In order to continue expanding our knowledge of the open applications released by each of the Technological Giants of the group known as GAFAM (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft) and others such as: "Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei, Netflix, Samsung, Tencent, Xiaomi, Yahoo and Yandex".
GAFAM Open Source: Technological Giants in favor of Open Source
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“Today, both public and private organizations are progressively moving towards a greater integration of Free Software and Open Source to their business models, platforms, products and services. That is to say, free and open technologies are increasingly an important part of the way of working in and out of them, for the benefit of their owners, clients or citizens. " GAFAM Open Source: Technological Giants in favor of Open Source.
HOS-P2: Huawei Open Source - Part 2
Applications of the Huawei Open Source
Apart from the official website of Huawei Open Source (HOS) which is currently inaccessible, many of its Open Source Developments can also be explored on its official site at GitHub and the web of Open Source Agenda. In addition, there is also another official website called Open source publishing center (Huawei Open Source Release Center).
“The Huawei Open Source Publishing Center is an open channel to download or request any open source code used in its products provided by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. and / or any of its subsidiaries / affiliates for which we are obligated to be released under open source licenses. "
Choice SDK: Origin
The first thing to know about this Huawei open source development called «Choice SDK », is that it was created by his developer partner (technological ally) called bluesource, which is an Austrian company specialized in application development.
“Bluesource is a technology company from the Austrian 'Silicon Valley', in Hagenberg. And it is based in the Hagenberg Software Park. Place where the greatest number of technical innovations made in Austria takes place. "
And the second is that the creation or origin of this development has been due to:
"An act of legitimate technological defense or logical reaction to the blockade of the US Government, in terms of not being able to use programs or applications of the Technological Giant Google. In such a way, that their current and new phones that previously used pre-installed Google applications and worked with Google Mobile Services (GMS), now do practically the same with Huawei Mobile Services (HMS). "
All this, with the purpose that, native google apps and native Huawei apps both can use the services of both, as they are available, without having to create two different versions of the application.
What is Choice SDK?
«Choice SDK » at their official website on GitHub, is described as follows:
“An SDK that aims to wrap similar functionalities of the HMS and GMS services in a common interface. It is the launch pad for application providers expanding from GMS (Google Mobile Services) to HMS (Huawei Mobile Services) without having to configure, publish and maintain another branch of code. Choice SDK is already used in multiple commercial, public and private applications. The objective of it is to save development, maintenance and security problems, now and in the future. "
With this open source solution, Huawei now you can easily migrate the apps that work with it GMS to ones that work optimally with the HMS. In order to publish them without major problems in your Application Gallery (AppGallery).
In addition, it supports features such as location, login, analytics, maps and messaging. Which covers, to a large extent, the spectrum of elements or situations that caused migration problems.
Summary
We hope this "useful little post" about this first exploration of «Huawei Open Source», offers an interesting and wide variety of open applications developed by the Technological Giant of «Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd»; and is of great interest and utility, for the entire «Comunidad de Software Libre y Código Abierto» and of great contribution to the diffusion of the wonderful, gigantic and growing ecosystem of applications of «GNU/Linux».
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