With Huawei still being placed on the US Entity list and with the US and China trade war not looking like it will come to an end soon, it means that for the foreseeable future, Huawei users should probably not expect to have Google Play Services available on their devices.

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But there is good news for those looking to put a bit of work into it.

This is because thanks to a workaround, you can actually install Google Play Services on your Huawei P40 smartphone. There are a lot of steps involved and it is by no means an official method, but if you absolutely need to have Google on your phone, then do read on as we’ll guide you through the entire process step by step.

Before you get started

• You’ll want to backup your phone and all of its files in the event that something goes wrong
• You will also need an external USB drive
• You will also need an adapter that will let you connect your USB drive to your Huawei P40

How to install Google Play Store on the Huawei P40

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1. Download the Huawei GMS Install file from here
2. Load it onto the USB drive and connect it to your Huawei P40
3. Go to Settings > System & updates > Backup & restore > Data backup > External storage > USB storage
4. Select the file you loaded onto the USB drive and tap Restore
5. Enter the password shown on your screen and tap OK
6. Clear all background applications
7. Look for the app on your home screen with a purple G icon and tap on it to launch the app
8. Tap Activate
9. Tap Allow
10. Return to the home screen and clear all background apps again
11. Relaunch the app and tap on the blue button at the bottom of the app’s screen and let it run in the background
12. Go to your phone’s files and open the USB drive
13. Look for the Google installation folder and tap on it
14. You will have to install the first six files so tap on them one by one to install them
15. Go to Settings > Users & accounts
16. Tap Add an account and select Google
17. You will be prompted with an error message informing you that the app was built for an older version of Android, but tap OK anyway
18. Tap Existing
19. Enter your Google login credentials and tap Sign in
20. Tap Next
21. At this point you can keep adding Google accounts you want associated with the device, but you will have to do so now because once the process is complete, you won’t be able to unless you restart the entire installation procedure
22. Clear all background applications
23. Go to your phone’s files and open the USB drive
24. Look for the Google installation folder and tap on it
25. Tap on the seventh file which will be Google Services Framework
26. Tap Allow
27. Tap Install and wait
28. Once installed, tap Done
29. Give the phone a minute or two and you will start seeing a bunch of error messages which will be normal. You can then choose to mute these error messages if they’re getting too annoying
30. Go to your phone’s home screen and you should see the Google Play Store app
31. Launch the newly-installed Google Play Store
32. Download and install an app called Device ID by VTechSevi
33. Launch the app and look for Google Service Framework
34. Clear your background applications
35. Go to your phone’s Settings > Apps
36. Tap the three-dot icon to the top right corner and select Show system processes
37. Look for Google Play Services
38. Tap Force Stop
39. Tap Uninstall
40. Clear all background applications
41. Go to your phone’s files and open the USB drive
42. Tap on the Google installation folder and install the eighth application called GMS Core Mod 1
43. Tap Allow
44. Tap Install
45. Go to your phone’s Settings > Apps
46. Tap the three-dot icon to the top right corner and select Show system processes
47. Look for Google Services Framework and tap on it and go to Storage
48. Tap Clear Cache and Clear Data
49. Clear all background applications
50. Launch the Device ID app and you will notice that the Google Services Framework ID is gone
51. Launch the Google Play Store – At this point some of you might be greeted by an error message asking you to retry. Keep doing this until the app launches without any error messages. This could take several attempts
52. Launch the Device ID app and check if the Google Services Framework ID has been regenerated
53. Repeat steps 3 & 4 until the ID reappears
54. Once the Google Services Framework ID has been stored, go to your phone’s Settings > Apps
55. Tap the three dot icon to the top right corner and select Show system processes
56. Look for Google Play Services
57. Tap Force Stop
58. Tap Uninstall
59. Go to your phone’s files and open the USB drive
60. Tap on the Google installation folder and install the ninth application called GMS Core Mod 2
61. Tap Allow
62. Tap Install

Conclusion

Assuming you follow these steps correctly, you should have no issues using the Google Play Store and downloading apps from it. We should also note that Google did previously warn against sideloading its apps onto unauthorized devices, so you might encounter errors in the future when trying to use them,

Now, as we said, this is a rather long series of steps and we imagine that some might feel uncomfortable using this method. If this isn’t for you, then Huawei’s app store should still have most of the major applications available on them.

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The Saved Games service gives you a convenient way to saveyour players' game progression to Google's servers. Your game can retrieve thesaved game data to allow returning players to continue a game at their lastsave point from any device.

The Saved Games service makes it possible to synchronize a player's game dataacross multiple devices. For example, if you have a game thatruns on Android, you can use the Saved Games service toallow a player to start a game on their Android phone, and thencontinue playing on a tablet without losing any of their progress. This servicecan also be used to ensure that a player's game playcontinues from where it left off even if their device is lost, destroyed, ortraded in for a newer model.

To learn how to implement saved games for your platform, seeClient implementations.

Saved Games basics

A saved game consists of two parts:

• An unstructured binary blob - this data can represent whatever you choose,and your game is responsible for parsing and writing to it.
• Structured metadata - additional propertiesassociated with the binary data that allow Google Play games services to visuallypresent Saved Games in the default Saved Games list user interface (UI), and topresent useful information in theGoogle Play Games app (for example, last updated timestamp).

A game can write an arbitrary number of Saved Games for a single player,subject to user quota, so there is no hard requirement to restrictplayers to a single save file.

Cover images

The Saved Games service provides a visual user experience in addition topersistence features. You are strongly encouraged to associate representativeimages with corresponding save files. If you are using the default Saved Gameslist user interface (UI) provides by the Play Games SDK in your game, the UIwill display these cover images. The cover images may also appear in theGoogle Play Games app.

Descriptions

You can provide a short text description of the content of a particular savedgame. This description is directly displayed to players and should summarizethe state that the saved game represents; for example, “Fighting the Goblinsin the Dark Woods”.

Quota

Developers are not charged for any saved game data that’s stored in the cloud.Instead, this data is counted against the player’s Google Drive quota - younever have to worry about it. The only quota that game developers need to careabout is their Google Drive API quota.

Read/Write isolation

All Saved Games are stored in your players' Google Drive Application DataFolder. This folder can only be read and written by your game - it cannot beviewed or modified by other developers’ games, so there is additional protectionagainst data corruption. In addition, Saved Games are insulated from directtampering by players so they cannot modify individual Saved Games.

Offline support

Your game can still read and write to a saved game when the player's device isoffline, but will not be able to sync with Google Play games services untilnetwork connectivity is established. Once reconnected, Google Play games servicesasynchronously updates the saved game data on Google's servers.

Conflict resolution

When using the Saved Games service, your game may encounter conflicts whenattempting to save data. These conflicts can occur when a user is running morethan one instance of your application on different devices or computers. Yourapplication must be able to resolve these conflicts in a way that provides thebest user experience.

Typically, data conflicts occur when an instance of your application is unableto reach the Saved Games service while attempting to load data or save it. Ingeneral, the best way to avoid data conflicts is to always load the latest datafrom the service when your application starts up or resumes, and save data tothe service with reasonable frequency. However, it is not always possible toavoid data conflicts. Your application should make every effort to handleconflicts such that your users' data is preserved and that they have a goodexperience.

Limits

Google Play games services currently enforce size limits on binary data and coverimage sizes of 3 MB and 800 KB respectively.

Saved game metadata

The structured metadata for a saved game contains these these properties:

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Client implementations

To learn how to implement Saved Games for your platform, see the following resources: