6 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 63
NEWS
are already on the market will be exempt from the
decision. Huawei had a contract in place with Google
that covered all of its phones, and it sold them to
customers based on the inclusion of the Play Store
and Google’s services, so lawyers and executives
will need to come to an agreement. There’s a lot
to be worked out by Google, Huawei, and the US
government, and until then, older Huawei phones
will likely still receive security and app updates as
they did before.- Huawei likely has a plan
While the news that Google has cut off Huawei’s
Android licence is definitely shocking, it’s not all
that surprising. The US government has had it in for
Huawei for a while, and a soft ban on selling Huawei’s
handsets in the United States was already in place.
Google’s move represents the so-called nuclear
option, but the Chinese firm had to anticipate that
something like this could happen at some point.
So the company likely has several plans in place,
including a ground-up redesign of its EMUI OS that
doesn’t include any Android source code and several
contingency options that replace Google’s services.
Of course, that raises just as many questions – the
least of which, how secure it would be – but I’m sure
Huawei’s engineers are hard at work on the solutions. - EMUI OS isn’t affected
It’s important to note that no matter how and when
the licence revocation goes into affect, Huawei’s
core EMUI code won’t be affected. That’s because it’s