HMS Developer Story — Fusing Technology and Art for Drawing Anytime Anywhere

In Akihabara, Tokyo, huge comic posters are scattered along the streets, capturing the attention of passerbys. Many comic enthusiasts enjoy creating comics and plots by themselves. "We hope everyone can create the art from their hearts without limitations of time and place, to capture momentary inspiration." TOMOKI TANIGAWA said.

MediBang! was founded in 2014, and is a company that provides a range of art tools and a platform for creating art. MediBang Paint was born with the aim of allowing app users to create art anywhere, anytime.

It is ideal for creating all kinds of illustrations and comic design, providing users with a wide range of brushes, materials, and fonts for comics, helping them create vivid and rich stories. For beginners, MediBang Paint offers introductory tutorials to help them get started, and for serious users, the app allows them to purchase a range of professional painting tools.

TOMOKI TANIGAWA: Business director of MediBang Paint/ART street

MediBang Paint is cross-device compatible (mobile phones, tablets, and PCs), allowing users to collaborate and create art. "Great comics require teamwork," TANIGAWA said. "Our app empowers many users to pool their skills and work together, encouraging team-building."

Users work together on different types of devices

"MediBang Paint has seen over 60 million downloads around the world. We hope to improve the app's user experience so that users can focus more on their creation." said TANIGAWA. "This is one of the reasons why we cooperate with Huawei HMS Core. We hope HMS Core's powerful and open capabilities can help us achieve our goal." He continued.

Currently, MediBang Paint has integrated In-App Purchases (IAP), allowing users to make in-app purchases with ease. As MediBang Paint is a globalized app, by integrating the IAP function, it can reduce cost for integrating global payment channels, ensuring regulation compliance during product development and release. In addition, the developers of MediBang Paint can integrate IAP efficiently and therefore focus on app innovation.

MediBang Paint has also integrated Account Kit, providing the one-click sign-in function, so users can quickly sign in to the app across different devices. By integrating Ads Kit, the app developers can leverage their apps' users to achieve further business success and gain more profits.

"HMS Toolkit makes integrating HMS Core capabilities an easy and efficient process. Under the assistance of the HMS Core team, we completed integration in a very short period." said SHINNOSUKE TAKAHASHI, an advanced engineer from the MediBang system department." After integrating the open capabilities of HMS Core, our app has achieved fantastic performance. We hope to deepen our cooperation with Huawei HMS Core. In the future, we will continue to explore further cooperation with Huawei HMS Core. For example, we can look at how to integrate Huawei's Pencil Engine that delivers smooth writing experience, to make our MediBang Paint more powerful and easier to use for our users." He added.

SHINNOSUKE TAKAHASHI, a senior engineer from the MediBang system department, working on improving user experience.