Huawei could soon be able to get its license to use the Google Play Services version of Android, allowing it to tap into some of its US supply chain, according to a report by Phone Arena.
A US ban prevents Huawei from licensing the Google Play Services of Android along with core Google apps like the Play Store, Maps, Search, Gmail and YouTube to name a few.
As a result, Huawei's recently announced Mate 30 series uses the AOSP open-source version of Android with Huawei's own App Gallery storefront.
Huawei originally forecast that it would ship 300 million phones to surpass Samsung and Apple and become the largest smartphone manufacturer in the world by the end of this year. But without the Google apps, sales outside China are expected to suffer.
The report said that in a meeting held last week, US President Donald Trump ordered officials to give certain US companies the "green light" to start shipping supplies to Huawei.
After the disappearance of LZPlay, an easy-to-use app enabling the installation of Google apps and services on the Mate 30 devices, another workaround was found.
On the XDA Forum, developers posted a new method that can get Google apps running on the Huawei Mate 30 Pro.
While this method is not as simple as installing Google Services Assistant and letting it do everything, it still works — with the caveat that SafetyNet will continue to fail since that is a server-side change from Google.
The steps are here:
Huawei Mate 30 Pro can run Google apps again, thanks to this new workaround
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