At the Huawei Developers Conference 2019 in China, the Chinese giant announced its much-awaited multi-platform operating system named HarmonyOS, which is also called HongMeng OS in Chinese.
The company has revealed that the operating system is not meant for smartphones and is currently focused on smart home devices. This contracted earlier rumors that the Mate 30 Lite will be powered by the company’s own operating system.
However, the company’s executives have revealed that while Huawei intends to keep using Google’s Android OS for the smartphone, if the ban on the company is enforced, it will quickly switch to HarmonyOS, within a day or two.
Now, Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei has said during a media interview that if the situation doesn’t change with the United States government, the company will start using its HarmonyOS, starting with Huawei P40 smartphone next year.
He has also confirmed that the HarmonyOS is now ready for smartphones but the company is waiting to see if the situation with the United States changes. He also revealed that the company’s own App Store named “App Gallery” is ready and “Huawei Mobile Services” will replace Google’s services.
The development seems to be in line with the company’s plan. Last month, the company said that it has no plans to launch a HarmonyOS-powered smartphone this year and it wants to maintain a single ecosystem and stick with Google’s platform.
HarmonyOS is being promoted as “a single OS that covers everything, and works with all product types.” The operating system is engineered to communicate openly regardless of the device, and by using a microkernel system, Huawei says HarmonyOS is secure, which is a major concern when dealing with Internet of Things (IoT) hardware.
Additionally, with Huawei’s Ark Compiler, programming languages can be translated so apps work with HarmonyOS, and that includes Android apps, simplifying adoption for third-party developers. It’s even intelligently adaptive and will display correctly on various screen sizes, just like adaptive mobile websites.
Currently, the company is gearing up to launch its flagship smartphones — Huawei Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro. The launch event for the same is scheduled to take place on 19th September in Munich, Germany.
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