👨‍💻HMS CORE: What have we done in January 2023?

Sadık Çoban
Huawei Developers
Published in
4 min readFeb 28, 2023

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Hello Everyone!

We are the HMS Core Cross-Platform Plugin team from Turkey! Our Team creates the cross-platform plugins for HMS Core across four different platforms, namely React Native, Cordova, Xamarin, and Flutter. We consistently release monthly package updates on npm, nuget, and pub.dev.

In this article, I will introduce the January updates released in 2023 to you. Here are our achievements in this month:

Summary of the month

We have updated Huawei Push Plugin in four platforms: React Native, Cordova, Xamarin and Flutter. In addition to these; in Flutter we have also updated Huawei AR Engine and Wallet plugins by adding null safety support, in React Native we updated Safety Detect plugin by adding TypeScript support.

Let’s dive into the details of our packages released in this month.

Flutter Huawei AR

Huawei AR plugin has been updated to 3.7.0+3 version along with breaking changes. Huawei AR plugin on flutter is null safe now! Management of camera permission has been removed, so you are expected to manage the permissions on your own. Multi face detection and tracking support have been added. You can set the light mode to any of the suitable choices from LightMode enum. Memory usage for map data has been optimized. Last but not least, semantic identification for different objects has also been added.

For the details of the package and changes in the latest version, do not forget to have a look at the changelog.

Flutter Huawei Wallet

Huawei Wallet plugin has been updated to 4.0.5+300 version. This version also includes breaking changes. Flutter Wallet supports the null safety now! All the components that Wallet plugin is depending upon has been updated with this version. There had been some refactoring made on the general structure of plugin. For more details about the changes and details about the Wallet SDK, please have a look at the changelog.

React-Native HMS Safety Detect

HMS Safety Detect Kit for RN has been updated to 6.7.0.300. This update mostly includes updating the target SDK versions to make sure your apps run properly on Android 13 devices. Moreover, core react libraries have also been updated to the latest versions. Last but not least, typescript support has been added to Safety Detect on React Native platform. For more information about HMS Safety Detect Kit and the latest updates, you are welcome to visit its npm page.

HMS Push Kit for Flutter, React Native, Cordova & Xamarin

Finally, we updated Push Kit on Flutter, React Native, Cordova and Xamarin plugins to version 6.7.0.300. This minor update mostly includes fixes for adapting to android SDK versions from 31 to 33. Also, the core cross-platform libraries are updated to continue providing better performance, stability and compatibility. And more than that, typescript support has been added to Push Kit in React Native.

As HMS Core Turkey team, we keep updating our cross-platform plugins across the four platforms each month to provide the latest versions of the Huawei Mobile Services to you. So, not to miss the news and the breaking changes of HMS, you can follow our Medium Page and GitHub repositories.

In addition, if you run into a bug in our packages, do not hesitate to submit an issue to the related repository.

By the time you see us in the next post, take care of yourselves and keep following our plugins! Bye! 🙋‍

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