Wu goes on to say, "At this point, it is pretty obvious that Huawei is well aware of this “LZPlay” app, and explicitly allows its existence. The developer of this app has to somehow be aware of these undocumented APIs, sign the legal agreements, go through several stages of reviews, and eventually have the app signed by Huawei." I would like to add that, remember, this was all finished at least three days before the public launch of the Mate 30. Lzplay somehow knew enough about all of this well in advance of the launch and had time to build an app, go through Huawei's whole process, and launch a website. Once again: Hmmm.
Huawei has already been asked if it is behind Lzplay, and honestly, at this point, that would probably be the best-case scenario, given how powerful Lzplay is. Huawei shot down this idea, though, and gave the following statement to Android Central: "Huawei's latest Mate 30 series is not pre-installed with GMS, and Huawei has had no involvement with www.lzplay.net."
Further research is not really possible right now, since, as Wu writes, the Lzplay app is "obfuscated/encrypted by QiHoo Jiagu (奇虎加固), and is non trivial to reverse engineer." So somebody went out of their way to hide exactly what Lzplay is doing, so we have no idea how it works or who made it.
Lzplay and the Mate 30's Unsettled Future
The whole time I've been writing this article, I've been occasionally refreshing Lzplay.net to see if it is still alive. Sometimes it is up, sometimes it ..
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