POLL: Huawei users, what are your intentions?

[jzw95]

@Ordog

They’d need to essentially rebuild the app from the ground up as I believe a lot of Google services are baked in there.

@Justin

However, the work involved in maintaining a third codebase would make this expensive

Thanks both for the clarification. I would class this as ‘not possible’ then, since the original suggestion is for Monzo to (potentially) “make their app available on Huawei AppGallery”. What is needed is for Monzo to create a third version of their app, which they could then make available. As you say, that is probably just about possible, but not likely, especially given what @simonb says about Huawei’s prospects are.

And I’m not even sure if rebuilding without Google Services is possible, because Monzo relies on Google merchant data for making transactions look nice, and using those data require that you use Google Maps, which is what required Monzo to switch from Apple Maps to Google Maps on the iOS app in the early days.

Maps

A lot of great discussion in here as always – I love you folks. Will try and answer as many of the raised points as possible, pull me up if I missed any A couple of people mentioned privacy. This is something I care about personally, and that we care about a great deal as a company: Just to be clear about this: pins are drawn onto the Google Map locally on the device. Data about merchants is gathered on the server-side from Google Places, but that request is not tied to a specific use…