Huawei is working on its new "Search app" to replace the "Google Search" app soon.
Chinese Tech Giant, Huawei has reportedly launched its own version of the app store called "App Gallery", to replace Google’s Play Store. It has also launched the Huawei Mobile Service (HMS) to replace Google Mobile Service. Now, today the company is working on its own search app as a replacement for Google Search.
With the recent launch of the Honor View30 Pro and the upcoming launch of the Huawei P40 series, Huawei will need to move essential customers that they can live without Google apps.
One of the most basic applications missing on Huawei’s Google-less devices right now is a dedicated search app, but that might be changing soon as Huawei is now beta testing the Huawei Search app.
Huawei Search app:
As reported by the XDA Developers,These are some of the features available in Huawei's Search App:
- Huawei Search is a basic search app that just lets you input a query to search the Internet for webpages, videos, news articles, or images.
- There is a shortcut to see the current weather, which brings up a widget of the current 24-hour forecast powered by Huafeng-AccuWeather, a joint venture that apparently sources forecast data from the China Meteorological Administration.
- There are also shortcuts for “sports,” “unit conversion,” and “calculator.”
- In Settings, the user can see their search history (or toggle it off), give feedback, change their search region and language, toggle safe search, or change the app’s search scope, which controls what Huawei applications the Huawei Search app can also search through.
- Additionally, the Huawei Search app features support for EMUI 10’s dark theme.
Following Huawei’s ban in the U.S., the Chinese smartphone maker has been on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List, which prevents Huawei from running Google services on its devices.
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