Huawei launches $1 million prize money app development contest: Apps Up 2022

Huawei has initiated its 2022 Global App Innovation Contents – Apps Up 2022. The winner will get total prize money of 1 million USD dollars. Huawei Apps Up 2022 contest will be held in different regions around the globe, including Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, and China. However, there are various categories that the prize money has been distributed in for the winner.

There are multiple prizes that derived from the 1 million prize money are:

1. Best app prize
2. Best game
3. Best social impact app
4. Best HMS innovation award
5. Tech women’s awards
6. All scenario coverage award
7. AppGallery rising star app
8. Student innovation award
9. Most popular app

That’s not it, Huawei will also praise app developers with outstanding portfolios and ideas outside of the app contest rules and will be provided with the following resources.

1. AppGallery promotional resources
2. 1 Serverless service voucher from AppGallery Connect
3. Voucher for some paid HMS Core capabilities

Initially announced at Huawei Developer Conference 2020, the Apps Up developer contest to gather skilled developers around the globe to build Huawei’s app ecosystem. Since its announcement, the Apps Up program has helped Huawei to gather over 5.4 million developers and over 200,000 apps integrated Huawei Mobile Services Core library from over 170+ countries and regions.

Below you can check the schedule of the Apps Up 2022 contest:

01 – Registration & submission

• June 24–18:00 on October 9 (UTC+8)

02 – Preliminary

• October 10 – 24:00 on November 7 (UTC+8)

03 – Public review

• November 8– 24:00 on November 20 (UTC+8)

04 – Finals & award ceremony

• December (UTC+8)

Wang Yue, the President of Huawei Consumer Cloud Service Application Ecosystem BU.
For #AppsUP2022, the future of apps come down to how well it can make our lives easier.
Stay tuned to the future of smart apps https://t.co/empRzb1uSC #TogetherWeInnovate pic.twitter.com/5r38zyWtQH

— Huawei Developers (@Huawei_devs) June 24, 2022

Here you can check the registration and submission process:

Deadline: 18:00 on October 9, 2022 (UTC+8)

Create works that integrate HMS open capabilities or services, and submit entries on the contest’s official website.

1. After 20:00 on June 24, 2022 (UTC+8), sign in to HUAWEI Developers with a valid HUAWEI ID (register for a HUAWEI ID if you do not have one) and click Sign up. If you intend to be a team leader, click New team and enter the team’s details. If you intend to be a team member, click Join team and enter the name of the team you wish to join.

2. Create your works and integrate HMS open capabilities or services. For more information about these capabilities or services, please refer to Technologies and Resources on the HUAWEI Developers website.

3. Click Submit work on the contest details page, enter the app name, ID, and description, and upload attachments including APKs and app introduction documents. Teams that apply for the Tech Women’s Award must include scanned copies of their female developers’ identity documents in the attachments, while those who apply for the Student Innovation Award must include scanned copies of all the team leaders’ and members’ student ID cards, as well as other identity documents, in the attachments.

Process:

Preliminary

• The judging panel will review the submitted works, and select 30 works from each region for the public review and finals stages.

Public review

• Shortlisted works will be showcased for global promotion, on both the contest’s official website and AppGallery by midnight on November 20 (UTC+8). The public rating score for each work is based on the number of votes they receive.

Regional finals

• Each region will hold its own final in December. The judging panel will rank the 30 shortlisted works according to a comprehensive scoring formula, in which the judging panel, public rating, and HMS integration scores are added.

There’s a bunch of other information about this competition that you can read on the official Huawei developer’s website, read it here.