Manuel Vonau is Android Police's Google Editor, with expertise in Android, Chrome, and other Google products - the very core of Android Police’s content. So improvements are likely to continue, making this a noteworthy choice as an alternative to keep in your back pocket. Still, the developers are working hard to bring AppGallery up to speed as a complete replacement for the Play Store major changes to the store were pushed through in 2020 to focus on honing in on popular and familiar apps. Unfortunately, app discovery is still a weak point for AppGallery. You can download apps directly on the store, but if the store doesn't have the app, you can grab the linked APK by tapping 'get' (as opposed to 'install' for apps already on the store). But thankfully, any Android-powered device has access to Huawei AppGallery, and most will find it much less cluttered and more straightforward to navigate than the Play Store. Huawei devices come preloaded with the AppGallery already since, unfortunately, Huawei doesn't play nice with Google ( considering that all Google-serviced apps are banned).
It still has a ways to go to catch up to Google, but still, over the years, it has impressively grown, laying in around 580 million monthly active users (in 2022).
