You should add the Wikipedia App into the Huawei Store App Gallery because there is no way to install the app on Huawei new phones without the Google Play Services
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@YacineBoussoufa: Assuming this task is about the Wikipedia Android application, hence adding that project tag so others can find this task.
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Thanks @YacineBoussoufa. We will soon be working on adding Google Play Services in order to enable push notifications, so this issue should be resolved.
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@Charlotte I wasn't talking about push notifications, I'm saying that new Huawei phones can't download the Android app because they don't have the play store and you should add the apk on the AppGallery Store, because there is no way to download the mobile app without installing other store which are not safe. And you need to use the Huawei Mobile Services and instead of Google Play Services because they cannot work
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Sorry, we are not able to distribute the app on Chinese app stores. Furthermore, Wikipedia is currently blocked in China anyway, so the app would not work anyway.
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@Dbrant: Could you please elaborate why and how some country is relevant?
(Is it relevant for e.g. legal reasons that Google Play is a US American app store, and which countries would be a no-go regarding app stores?)
Furthermore, Wikipedia is currently blocked in China anyway, so the app would not work anyway.
Website access in a single country sounds unrelated to using Huawei AppGallery on a mobile phone which might not be located in that single country.
See https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_Diskussion:Technik/Mobil/App&oldid=203478755#Wikipedia_App for a random example request to make that app available in that app store.
I'm going to boldly reopen for consideration as I cannot follow, I'm afraid.
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@Dbrant: Could you please elaborate why and how some country is relevant?
(Is it relevant for e.g. legal reasons that Google Play is a US American app store, and which countries would be a no-go regarding app stores?)
Yes, it is for legal reasons. The U.S. currently has sanctions against China, and therefore we cannot do any kind of business with Huawei, even though the app itself is free.
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Actually, huge plot twist: We have found a way to deploy the app on Huawei AppGallery, but make it available in all countries except China. So I'm marking this as Resolved, with the caveat that the app is still unavailable in China.