Huawei’s new operating system ‘HarmonyOS’

An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer

hardware, software resources, and provides common services for
programs. People around the world are working in every single day to
develop or create various operating systems. Recently Huawei has
announced their new operating system called ‘HarmonyOS’. The
company says the operating system, a microkernel-based dispersed OS,
can be used in all from smartphones to smart speakers, wearables, and
in-vehicle systems to generate a communal ecosystem crosswise
devices. The operating system will be released as an open-source
platform worldwide to inspire implementation.

There’s been a lot of rumor about Huawei’s in-house operating system

ever since Google postponed the company’s Android license back in
May, following the US government’s conclusion to put Huawei on the
Entity List. Huawei has made no secret of the fact that it’s been working
on its own OS, but the amount to which it would be able to act as a
additional for Android is uncertain.

Huawei plans to launch HarmonyOS on smart screen products on this

year, before increasing it to work on other devices, like wearables, over
the next three years. The first of these products will be the Honor
Smart Screen. Huawei has yet to clearly say what establishes a smart
screen device, but Reuters earlier reported that the OS would seem on
a range of Honor smart TVs. The focus for the operating system will be
products for the Chinese marketplace at first, before Huawei enlarges it
to other markets.
In a statement, the CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group, Richard
Yu, says that HarmonyOS is totally different from Android and iOS since
its ability to scale across different kinds of devices. “You can develop
your apps once, then flexibly deploy them across a range of different
devices,” the CEO says. Earlier, it’s been uncertain whether HarmonyOS
would be an operating system for smartphones or for Internet of
belongings devices. It now seems that it’s intended to power both,
similar to Google’s experimental Fuchsia operating system, which is
planned to run on various form-factors.

Although the OS will come to more devices over the next three years, in
a follow-up press statement, Huawei said that for the time being it
intends to continue using Android on its phones. Whether it can endure
to do so is additional matter. CNBC reports that in a press conference
following the launch, Yu said that the condition was uncertain as to
whether Huawei can still use Android, and that the company is coming
up on an update to find out.

Since placing Huawei on the Entity List, the Trump administration has
specified that it’s willing to affluence the limitations on the company. In
last July, senior administrators said that the administration would grant
licenses to deal with Huawei in examples where national sanctuary
wouldn’t be wedged. However, Bloomberg stated that the White House
is delaying its conclusion about delivering these licenses in the wake of
China’s decision to stop purchases of US agricultural goods. It’s yet
another proposal that the Huawei restrictions have as much to do with
the US-China trade war as they do with defending national security.
‘HarmonyOS’ now has an official name, but it still has some foremost
footraces to overwhelme. Huawei is expecting developers to recompile
their apps for this new operating system, with the capability to code
once and organize across multiple devices with unlike screen layouts,
communications and other. Huawei says developers can assemble a
range of languages into machine code in a single atmosphere, but it’s
blurred exactly how easy that will be for developers. There are a lot of
big promises here, but it’s going to be an even bigger challenge to
construct an app ecosystem to competing both Android and Android
Open Source Project (AOSP).