What you need to know Huawei has been cut off from Google for the past two years. The company developed its App Gallery as a replacement for the Google Play Store. Huawei this month announced strong continued growth of the App Gallery. Despite the lack of Google support for its phones, Huawei is still here and making some of the best Android phones we've seen, when it comes to hardware at least. The company had been forced to build out its own App Gallery, a Play Store replacement, to even compete in the smartphone market. There are few signs that it's doing much to stop the bleeding in markets which rely heavily on the Play Store. Still, the company today shared news of the uptake of its AppGallery over the past year, and it's a growing business.