HarmonyOS
Huawei HarmonyOS Connect Upgrade Plan: Reduces development time, reach vast consumers and more
On May 18, Huawei hosted HarmonyOS Connect Partner Summit in Shanghai and during the conference, the company has officially announced the HarmonyOS Connect brand upgrade plan to help the industrial partners in producing, selling, and operating good products.
About HarmonyOS:
Huawei’s HarmonyOS is a microkernel-based distributed operating system and it is mainly designed to be used across different devices rather than having everything in the same place.
Additionally, HarmonyOS is an open-source ecosystem and can also be used by other third-party smartphone makers. However, some brands have already started talks with Huawei to adapt HarmonyOS to their smartphones.
HarmonyOS Connect System:
On May 18, Huawei launched the HarmonyOS Connect brand upgrade plan and the brand switching will be completed on August 18. According to the information, eligible hardware vendors, solution vendors, and channel vendors can apply to join to jointly build the HarmonyOS Connect ecosystem.
In addition, Huawei has also created an exclusive E2E cooperative business online service platform for partners. The platform provides one-stop service capabilities from registration, development/certification, and market planning to help partners complete product launches efficiently and at low cost.
To provide more understanding of HarmonyOS, Huawei Consumer Business AI, and Smart Full Scenario Business Unit’s President said:
“HarmonyOS is a smart device operating system created by Huawei for the era of Internet of Everything. It provides a unified language for the intelligence, interconnection, and collaboration of different devices.”
“To bring consumers a simple, smooth, continuous, safe and reliable full-scene interactive experience, we have fully upgraded the two major brands of “Huawei HiLink” and “Powered by HarmonyOS” to “HarmonyOS Connect” for 1+8+N ecological partners.
Hardware products have achieved technical certification and brand integration, and HarmonyOS capabilities are used as the base of the full-scenario smart ecology. So that HarmonyOS Connect products can naturally become part of the HarmonyOS hyper terminal, bringing consumers a new cross-device experience.”
“Making a good product, selling a good product, and operating a good product” is the new value that the newly upgraded HarmonyOS Connect brings to partners. said Yang Haisong, Vice President of Huawei’s consumer business AI and full-scenario business department
First: Make a good product:
Additionally, he mentioned that to first make good products and join the HarmonyOS Connect Ecosystem to achieve minimal distribution network, universal card, minimal interaction, hardware mutual assistance, and other capabilities.
The device users powered by HarmonyOS can connect their smart devices to other devices with just a single touch of smartphone and can be controlled any time without installing any application.
This effectively solves the problem of low utilization of device smart features and realizes fast and low-cost connections to users.
Not only this, but the HarmonyOS support devices from the different brands can also combine the software and hardware capabilities of different devices according to the different needs of consumers and different scenarios. Also to merge them into a “super device” to achieve differentiated competition.
Second: To sell the good product:
Huawei will open up the whole scene smart life product to more than 60,000 offline retail and service outlets, online Huawei mall (Vmall), Huawei’s official flagship store, and other self-owned retail locations, as well as more than 15,000 third party sales channels.
Multi-path sales channels provide comprehensive traffic support to partners and help partners sell good products.
Third: Operating product
Huawei will fully drive the activity of partner products through high-frequency and just-needed equipment scene linkage and intelligent distribution of HarmonyOS atomic services to provide end-to-end service platform and one-stop operation services to help partners High-efficiency operations.
Simultaneously, Huawei will open its operating system and provide a data operating platform to visualize the effects of partner products and services and bring better user conversion efficiency.
(Via – ithome)
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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)
