According to the information, HarmonyOS 3.1 developer beta is currently being announced for the first phase of devices including Huawei P50 and P50 Pro. However, Huawei has confirmed to add more devices to the test pool later on. Also, a more friendly and subtle beta test is likely to begin in March.

To be mentioned, HarmonyOS 3.1 developer open beta recruitment is applicable until February 13, 2023. Afterward, Huawei will review the test applications. Selected testers will receive an email or SMS to download HarmonyOS 3.1 developer beta OTA rollout.

Also, this beta activity is available only for the Chinese models and only real authenticated accounts will pass the developer beta signup.

HarmonyOS 3.1 comes constructively adds a new ArkTS language, and with the latest public test, you will experience the improvements and efficiency of the app powered by ArkTS language, STage model, ArkUI, and more.

Below you can check the HarmonyOS 3.1 developer preview features:

• The ability framework adds a stage development model, including stage model life cycle management, scheduling, callback, context acquisition, authentication, and more. At the same time, the operation and management capabilities of the application are enhanced.
• The ArkUI development framework enhances the declarative Canvas/XComponent component capabilities, enhances component layout capabilities and state management capabilities, and optimizes the usability of some components.
• Application package management adds an interface for querying properties related to applications, ability, and ExtensionAbility.
• The common basic class library supports Buffer binary reading and writing.
• Web services add support for document preview and basic editing functions of document-type web applications, as well as cookie management and storage management.
• Added support for YUV, webp image codec, and other capabilities for graphics and images. Added native vsync capabilities, and supports self-drawing engines to independently control the rendering rhythm.
• Added camera configuration and preview functions in Media Services.
• The window service adds window-related interfaces under the Stage model, which enhances the window rotation capability and enhances the avoidance area query capability.
• The globalization service has newly added support for internationalization enhancement capabilities such as time zone lists, transliteration, and phone number attribution.
• The basic capabilities of common events are enhanced, and the commonEvent module is changed to commonEventManager.
• The resource management service adds a synchronization interface for resource acquisition, a new interface for querying resource values ​​​​based on names, a new interface for querying number and float resource types, and a new way for Stage model resource query.
• Input method service adds input method cursor direction constant.

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According to the information, HarmonyOS 4 will come with major design changes and new features that will improve the user experience. Meanwhile, we’re also seeing inputs about HarmonyOS 3.1, which could debut along with the Huawei P60 series. Also, it could be taken as a major improvement version over HarmonyOS 3.0.

Therefore, HarmonyOS 4 deserves to be a major upgrade to complete the cycle.

Skipped at Last year:

At Huawei Developer Conference 2021, Huawei launched HarmonyOS 3 and began testing the developer preview. On the other hand, the tech maker launched it in public in July 2022 for smartphones. At HDC 2022, Huawei didn’t launch HarmonyOS 4, yet it unveiled various services and HarmonyOS 3.1.

The stationed launch of a second HarmonyOS version suits the motive here, because, Huawei has decided to put two operating system versions among consumers.

One will be a substantial upgrade and the second one will be major. Therefore, HarmonyOS 3.1 could be seen in the Huawei P60 series and HarmonyOS 4 in Huawei Mate 60 series, which is slated to launch in the second half of this year.

As for now, Huawei has not revealed the official details about HarmonyOS 3.1 or HarmonyOS 4’s features and user interface.

HarmonyOS:

Unveiled at HDC 2019, Huawei first introduced HarmonyOS in smart screens, and then the company opened it for various platforms. By harnessing the power of shared APIs and cross-device support, HarmonyOS could provide an all-around user experience.

For example, you can connect and control all of your smart home and IoT devices right from your smartphone. Various industry partners are using HarmonyOS to build new devices and helping to grow the HarmonyOS ecosystem.

(source)

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According to the information coming from Weibo, HarmonyOS 3.1 has been leaked in an internal code of a device. An image shared by a tipster suggests that the internal code of HarmonyOS 3.1 belongs to a new Huawei device.

Despite having no confirmation, we could assume that this could be the upcoming Huawei P60 series. Also, we are not expecting big features upgrade with this software.

However, we could see this release as a bug fix and optimizations, while adding flagship-oriented additions to the Huawei P60 lineup.

HarmonyOS 3.1:

Announced at Huawei Developer Conference 2022, HarmonyOS 3.1 comes as an early version of the HarmonyoS operating system. On the other hand, it is slated to launch in the first quarter of this year.

HarmonyOS 3.1 developer preview marks HarmonyOS design, it brings a light skeuomorphic aesthetic style and brings users a new interactive experience with the texture of real life. The cross-device super terminal can be connected with one drag, and the universal card can be swiped to obtain the required information, bringing a new experience of smart life in all scenarios.

It also gets you a new ArkTS development language developed by Huawei. Based on TypeScript (TS for short), it matches the ArkUI framework and expands correspondingly.

ArkUI is a declarative UI development framework for building distributed application interfaces. Furthermore, there’s ArkCompiler is Huawei’s self-developed unified programming platform, which includes key components such as compilers, tool chains, and runtimes.

Aside from the developer preview, Huawei is yet to reveal the HarmonyOS 3.1 user interface on smartphones.

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Recently, Huawei released new development samples for HarmonyOS 3.1 including API 9 support. This brings new capabilities for developers to include new features.

Below you can check the details on all these five HarmonyOS 3.1 samples.

Sample 1 – Weather:

This sample contains a sample of a weather application that has a home page, city management, the option to add cities, and notifications for weather timely updates.

With this sample, developers can learn how to use a set of codes to implement apps in different screen sizes, and maintain the overall style consistency in UI for different devices.

Sample 2: Custom Sharing:

This HarmonyOS 3.1 sample will show custom sharing for message-sending apps to share and show text, links, pictures, and more for third-party apps.

The sample will help devs to understand data requests and responses, screenshot settings, file management, and media services.

Sample 3: Puzzle

This HarmonyOS 3.1 sample brings a jigsaw puzzle game example made with grid components and realizes image fetching, cropping, and segmentation via an image processing tool and media library management interface.

This third sample enables developers to master media library management, image processing, and grid components.

Sample 4: Another game

This sample will consist of a Backgammon game providing further information to developers such as distributed data management, using the Canvas component to realize the drawing of chessboard and chess pieces to synchronize between different devices.

It will provide capabilities such as canvas components, distributed data, and device management.

Sample 5: Collection

The final sample has a collection of components, including ArkUI, general capabilities, animations, and more. Furthermore, this sample will provide developers to intuitively adapt UI component development on various devices.

Beta:

These samples will help developers to understand the latest changes in HarmonyOS 3.1. Other than that, these are indications that Huawei is gearing up for the HarmonyOS 3.1 beta on smartphones.

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A report coming from Chinese media reveals that Huawei could launch HarmonyOS 3.1 alongside the Huawei P60 series. It’s not the first time we’re reading such inputs, as we also speculated HarmonyOS 3.1 for the P60 lineup (read more)

HarmonyOS 3.1 was initially announced during Huawei Developer Conference 2022. However, the company only launched the developer beta version and promised to test the public beta in January 2023.

According to the HarmonyOS 3.1 roadmap, Huawei planned to launch this new HMOS around March and April. This window is also decided to unveil the new P60 series.

Hence, it makes sense for the Chinese tech make to reveal both of these amazing products. It will also correlate with consumers who want to get some new software features specially designed for the Huawei P60 series.

Currently, Huawei has not revealed the features of HarmonyOS 3.1 but we are yet to participate in the beta activity or its smartphone version.

Also, the tech company has not announced such information via the official channels, which we are eagerly waiting for.

The HarmonyOS 3.1 developed preview changelog has new meta capability, web service, document preview, and other important service improvements. This new HarmonyOS 3.1 dev build also has new user interface APIs and development environment capabilities.

Huawei P60:

A recent report reveals that Huawei has finalized the P60 series for launch. And the company is preparing a strategy for its promotion, sales, and consumer interactions.

Meanwhile, a rear TPU cover leak has revealed the camera desing of this upcoming P series smartphone. Showing a new kind of camera layout featuring three openings, which remains ambiguous for the time being.

It’s also speculated that the phone will launch in the first quarter of 2023, a tradition that has been paused since the Huawei P40 series unveiling in 2020. Since then Huawei only launched the P50 series in 2021, and no new P-branded phone was launched in 2022.

(source – PConline)

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According to the information, Huawei and OpenAtom foundation are working together to increase industry partners to adopt the open-source HarmonyOS named OpenHarmony.

The ZT925 payment device has also passed the OpenHarmony 3.1 Release version compatibility evaluation and received the OpenHarmony ecosystem product compatibility certificate.

Adding to this, the device can be equipped with different forms of master devices by applying OpenHarmony’s distributed soft bus technology, so as to adapt to different application scenarios.

The ZT925 electronic payment device integrates financial components such as a password keyboard and a contactless card reader to form a minimal secure payment suite that provides financial payment functions externally.

With OpenHarmony 3.1 Release version, the device has its own distributed networking capabilities. It can automatically discover and complete identity authentication and automatic networking with the main device and expand the financial payment feature of the main device.

After the ZT925 and the main device are powered on respectively, they form a star-shaped network with a stable topology according to their respective preset policies.

The user handles the business on the main device and transfers the transaction information to the ZT925 through the OpenHarmony soft bus technology in the financial payment transaction link. The indicator light of the remote terminal ZT925 starts to flash and enters the state of financial business processing, responding to the customer’s card swiping and password input on the ZT925.

So far, the main device and ZT925 have completed the payment transaction through the remote linking process. This time, the terminal product makes payment-related security components and general components into independent components, so that the terminal form fits better with the scene and improves the overall portability.

The terminal equipment manufacturers further divide labor, professional security payment manufacturers focus on the development of security components, industry manufacturers focus on general components and business experience, and aggregate different security components through specified strategies to form a super terminal on the merchant side. This contributes to Improving the payment experience and security.

More importantly, for the update of the mainline version of the terminal operating system, the terminals interconnected through the OpenHarmony soft bus only need to do differentiated security certification to quickly iterate industry equipment.

Traditional financial terminals use core boards and extended backplanes to assemble security components such as PIN pads and common components such as display screens and cameras, which cannot well meet the fragmented needs of the industry.

If the scenario needs to add a display screen, it will involve the change of the whole machine. Now, financial components such as PIN pads and card readers are made into independent payment security suites, and the financial part is decoupled.

The OpenHarmony soft bus technology is equipped with different forms of the main equipment to jointly carry and display financial services and help the development of financial services.

OpenHarmony soft bus technology on financial terminals, Zhengtong Electronics starts from the practicality, reliability, security, and scalability of financial terminals, improves the business support capabilities and intelligence level of financial terminals, and meets the needs of fragmented industries.

Furthermore, Zhengtong Electronics has enriched the OpenHarmony soft bus control technology by introducing customized networking strategies to improve the efficiency of financial terminal reconstruction.

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HarmonyOS  3.1 preview version comes with enhanced declarative UI capabilities, a new application development model – Stage model, and in DFX, Web component development, and internationalization The capabilities of subsystems such as development, communication interconnection, and media software have been updated or enhanced.

Also, this release of HarmonyOS 3.1 Developer Preview is a beta version for developers. The application development stage model is newly launched and includes subsystems such as ArkUI, ArkTS language, Web, and application framework that have been updated or enhanced.

Check the HarmonyOS 3.1 developer preview changelog:

• The meta-capability adds a stage development model, including stage model lifecycle management, scheduling, callback, context acquisition, authentication, etc.
• Web services add support for document preview and basic editing functions of document-type web applications, as well as cookie management and storage management.
• Added an interface for querying application, Ability, and ExtensionAbility-related properties in application package management.
• The ArkUI development framework enhances the declarative Canvas/XComponent component capability, enhances the component layout capability, and the state management capability.

HarmonyOS 3.1:

Huawei launched HarmonyOS 3.1 operating system and announced a developer preview rollout on the same day. According to the roadmap, Huawei will start beta testing in the first quarter of 2022, it’s expected that the phone users will get HarmonyOS 3.1 beta by January 2023.

Meanwhile, public release is scheduled to happen in the second quarter of 2023, somewhere in April. It’s expected that the Huawei P60 series will be the first flagship to come up with this new HarmonyOS software but more details are still awaited.

Currently, Huawei has not released any new HarmonoyOS 3.1 features or user interface designs for smartphones. However, we’ll keep you posted as more information continue to unfold.

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Huawei P60 and Mate 60 series are reported to launch next year, on the other hand, the company also gave us a hint of this happening by launching HarmonyOS 3.1 at HDC 2022 and retaining HarmonyOS 4 for next year.

Tradition:

Huawei had a tradition of launching two flagships in a year including a P and Mate series smartphone. In 2021, Huawei broke the tradition due to the lack of required assets to build new devices. It only launched the P50 series in order to at least remain in the latest flagship race.

This year, the Huawei Mate 50 series marked its appearance but there was no P60. In the past two years, Huawei launched only two flagships.

In terms of software, the P50 series comes pre-boxed with HarmonyOS 2, while the Mate 50 ships with HarmonyOS 3.

Inputs reveal that the company will resume dual flaghip in year tradition from 2023. If it’s true, then we could see the Huawei P60 series packed with HarmonyOS 3.1 because the software will launch in the first quarter of 2023.

On the other hand, Huawei Mate 60 could launch in the fourth quarter of 2023, while, HarmonyOS 4 will also be announced around the date during HDC 2023.

Currently, Huawei has not revealed the smartphone-related features of HarmonyOS 3 but we can expect a major improvement in performance since it comes with a new OpenHarmony 3.2 base.

Furthermore, there’s a mention of an improved system connectivity scenario that is specially designed for HarmonyOS 3.1. Therefore, we could also see new additions in Super Device. Still, there’s no graphical release has been detected so far.

HarmonyOS 4 is currently unknown and there is no specific announcement made on this HarmonyOS version. More on this could only be known in 2023.

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Yes, HarmonyOS 4 is scheduled to launch next year and it possibly is arriving at HDC 2023. For the time being, Huawei has launched HarmonyOS 3.1 for your smartphones.

According to the information, HarmonyOS 3.1 early adopter version supports Harmony Development Kit and the SDK has fully upgraded ArkTS for declarative application development. It supports 10000+ ArkTS APIS for better app development.

Also, the HarmonyOS 3.1 SDK has also been upgraded, as the HarmonyOS 3 was based on OpenHarmonyOS 3.1 with API 8, while the HarmonyOS 3.1 is launched with OpenHarmony 3.2 and API version 9.

As for now, Huawei has not released any details about the features and capabilities of this upcoming HarmonyOS version but there are some exclusive details that you can now grab in hand.

HarmonyOS 3.1 roadmap is here and we could see that this software will rollout developer preview builds in November this year. Followed by Beta testing in January 2023, and public release in March 2023.

Yeah, it rings the bell for us, as we can assume that the Huawei P60 series will be ready to amaze us with a new software version such as HarmonyOS 3.1. On the other hand, HarmonyOS 4 will be promoted with the Huawei Mate 60 series.

To be mentioned, Huawei has already achieved 320 million installations on smartphones, tablets, wearables and third-party devices.

HarmonyOS is a multi-kernel operating system designed and developed by Huawei and its open-source code was later donated to Open Atom Foundation. The software continues to surprise us with new features and additions that are hard to find in other mobile software such as Android and iOS.

Currently, Huawei is seeding HarmonyOS 3 for its smartphones and other devices. But now, we’re excited to see what HarmonyOS 3.1 and we’ll keep you posted with future developments.

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