HarmonyOS
Huawei HarmonyOS: Journey to past, present, and future
Huawei and HarmonyOS together have come across a long journey. From the time when HarmonyOS came into the limelight to date, it has remained one of the best software products of the company. Taking a flashback, and predicting the future, let’s discuss some vital information about the Huawei HarmonyOS system.
The founder of Huawei – Ren Zhengfei introduced the term HarmonyOS and its information in 2019, for the first time. Giving a brief note on how the new operating system will provide immense benefits to the users, Ren mentioned a few aspects of the respective subject.
Ren said that HarmonyOS is a first-level operating system. Consequently, it originally supported only the telecom networks and maintained the end-to-end encryption to 5 milliseconds, or even lesser. Besides, at that point, HarmonyOS stepped onto the consumer platform as a Lite OS or an IoT (Internet of Things) system, that the company released in 2015.
As a Lite OS, the company used to equip HarmonyOS in the embedded devices. However, the Lite OS was not able to gain fame in a good manner. Hence, the Chinese manufacturer decided to revamp the infrastructure of the system and once again bring it to the users’ surface with new abilities.
HarmonyOS as an original system
As a result, Huawei officially released the HarmonyOS system as Hongmeng (Chinese term) at the 2019 Developer Conference. The CEO of Huawei – Yu Chengdong explained that Hongmeng means opening up the world and gave a similar name in the English dictionary as Harmony.
On the other hand, Yu revealed that if Google does not open the doors of the Android system for Huawei, then the company will install the HarmonyOS system on smartphones. And later on, we know how things went for Huawei devices.
Initially, Huawei decided to push the respective system only for IoT devices. But, things took a U-turn and the company started powering its smart gadgets with the HarmonyOS system. At the same time, Huawei introduced the HiLink and LiteOS devices to make IoT development simpler and more efficient.
HarmonyOS 2.0: A new beginning
Differentiating the matters, and making a firm decision, the Chinese tech giant decided to open new aspects of the Hongmeng system. In June 2021, Huawei conducted an online summit and unveiled the HarmonyOS 2.0 operating system.
Since then, HarmonyOS started to evolve in various fields. On August 2021, the smart hardware ecological products upgraded completely to the HarmonyOS system. “Works with Huawei HiLink” and “Powered by HarmonyOS” have now been the new taglines for smart devices. Moreover, these devices have adopted the unified experience, unified solution as well as a unified platform.
Meanwhile, the Hongmeng system became the Hongmeng Zhilian. By now, the Hongmeny subject has changed to a distributed system of the microkernel and HiLink protocols.
As now we are running in 2022, Huawei has again gifted its users with HarmonyOS 3.0 software. No doubt, the system brings a huge bag of thoughtful features that you would have never seen before. Alongside, the company is constantly making efforts to bring the latest firmware to almost every device and give users a full-scenario smart life experience.
HarmonyOS devices have already exceeded 300 million in numbers. And it is just a beginning. Day by day, the partners and developers are increasing Huawei’s cultivation. Undoubtedly, in the next 5-10 years, the system will become a new role model for other software systems.
TAILG has launched a brand new electric scooter, which is powered by the HarmonyOS operating system and an all-around stylish look to provide a better experience for consumers.
It has a custom-made avant-garde handlebar, as well as an exclusive smart touch screen, which can display various driving data of the vehicle in real-time. It also equips with a variety of smart unlocking features, including one-key ignition.
The latest TAILG brings HarmonyOS features such as APP control, NFC unlocking, mileage prediction, smart fortification, and vehicle inspection. The TAILG HarmonyOS electric scooter packs a 72V23AH graphene battery, a 1000W cloud-powered motor, and a GPS positioning system.
Looking at the price segment, the TAILG HarmonyOS scooter starts at 3899 yuan, and the high-end version is priced at 4588 yuan. This new electric scooter will be sold in offline stores across China.
Last year in August, TAILG and Huawei announced cooperation to upgrade electric vehicles, the two companies will establish a joint innovation laboratory to conduct research on IoT and other technologies. This will also allow both firms to achieve technological advantages.
Established in 2004, TAILG is an enterprise specializing in R&D, manufacturing, sale, and service of new energy electric vehicles, Its products cover electric bikes, electric scooters, electric special bikes, electric tricycles, and other vehicles. It has an annual production capacity of 12 million vehicles and more than 30,000 stores exclusively in China.
(via – Sina Tech)
Today, HarmonyOS 3.1 developer preview testing is opened for smartphone users, this recruitment will enable developers to participate in the open beta activity with developer-only features directly into a real device.
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.
Android 14 is the next software version for the Android ecosystem. On February 8, Google stepped ahead to begin the development of this major upgrade with the first developer beta.
Google has released the roadmap for the development, beta testing, platform stability, and the final release of Android 14, which reveals meet the launch of Huawei HarmonyOS 4 later in the second half of 2023.
The first developer preview is already out for the Pixel devices. However, Google could open early access to other smartphone makers such as OnePlus by April when the open beta campaign kicks off.
As mentioned by the Android company, Android 14 is projected to reach platform stability by the end of July. But there’s still a possibility of these milestone timelines to delay, similar to last year.
For your information, the Android 14 developer preview will be a very useful and early gift to the developer community. It will pave a way for the app devs to know more about the upcoming APIs and app features ahead of the final launch.
Looking into the developer preview features, Android 14 promises to improve productivity, enhances performance, improvements to security, and privacy, and bring new customizations.
Yes, there are new tweaks and changes made over Android 12, while there are more that will be visible as the development progress further. Throughout this phase, these developers (and later users) will help to fix bugs and make improvements to the Android 14 source code.
HarmonyOS 4:
Aside from the Android 14 developer beta, Huawei is preparing for the HarmonyOS 3.1 rollout but the company is working on HarmonyOS 4 as a major release for the next generation of Huawei devices. For now, there’s no official launch date available but we are likely to hear more on this at the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2023 event.
HarmonyOS 4 promises big upgrades over HarmonyOS 3 and a major restructure in the user interface (UI). Nonetheless, we’ll keep you posted.
(source – Android)