The relationship between Google and Huawei is shaky due to the last executive order signed by President Donald Trump last Thursday, and everything seems to indicate that we will soon see its consequences. As reported by Reuters and confirms The Verge, Google has decided to suspend with Huawei those businesses that require hardware and software transfer, except those covered by open source licenses.
If confirmed what Reuters says, this decision would leave Huawei without access to Android updates and the company's next phones outside of China would also lose access to various Google applications, such as the Play Store and Gmail.
Huawei will continue to have access to the Android operating system as it is an open source system and open to all, however Google would eliminate Huawei access to its services. A decision that would also affect that Google would stop offering technical assistance to Huawei and support in relation to Android.
According to Reuters, Google is still discussing the details of specific services internally. On behalf of Huawei, they are still studying the impact of the actions approved by the US Department of Commerce. In response to the executive order of the Trump Administration, Huawei reported that "they are willing to collaborate with the US government and propose effective measures to guarantee the safety of the product."
How would a hypothetical Huawei with Android without collaboration with Google
If Google finally decides to cut its relationship with Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer will be left without access to Android Q updates for their current phones, as these depend on Google itself.
The brand could continue to use the Android base (AOSP) that can be used freely, but their next devices would have to be offered only with their own application store. Huawei would stop offering the "Android of Google" in its terminals, to simply go to offer an Android fork with its own services.
If the Reuters report is correct, the next Huawei phones would run out of access to Google applications. That is, they would arrive with EMUI and its different applications, but Google applications and Google Mobile Services (Google Play Store, among others) would not have pre-installed.
At the beginning of March, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei, already stated that in case of having to stop working with Android they had a plan B. Although, of course, they preferred to work with the ecosystems of Google and Microsoft.