On September 10, Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Together) will be held in Songshan Lake, Dongguan. The conference’s official website has drawn up some of the highlights of the year, and HarmonyOS is certainly one of the most impressive.
HarmonyOS was officially unveiled by Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business, at Huawei Developer Conference 2019. Over the past year, the operating system that developers had high hopes for and the public knew little about has been on the mend.
With HDC2020 just around the corner, it’s a good time to take a look back at HarmonyOS ‘past and look ahead to the future.
HarmonyOS 1.0: Distributed technology breaks device boundaries
HarmonyOS is a distributed operating system for the future. It can support seamless access of different hardware devices, which is realized by distributed technology. Distributed technology can solve the problem of experience coordination among multiple devices, break the limitation of hardware capabilities of a single physical device, and make capabilities of different hardware complementary. To say the biggest is to use software to define a new product form, really bring all things connected and smart life seamless.
Huawei’s distributed technology has four core points: hardware mutual assistance and resource sharing; Multi-terminal authentication, distributed security; One development, multiple deployment; Unified OS and flexible deployment.
From the technical implementation level, “super virtual terminal” as a secure and credible whole, adhering to the concept of the right people, through the right equipment, the correct use of data. In connection capacity, the devices are interconnected through the “distributed soft bus”, a highway between intelligent terminals. To reduce the difficulty of distributed development for developers on the Super virtual Terminal, Huawei provides the multi-terminal deployment solution. You only need to develop the code once and select an appropriate running device to realize application development across devices. Unified OS and flexible deployment technologies also provide a full set of software and hardware solutions for device developers.
From the application level, distributed technology provides the ability is to break the terminal hardware line between more, the hardware differences of different device shielding, for the application to hardware and mutual assistance among various terminal hardware implementation, resource sharing, achieve in all scenarios give full play to the ability of each intelligent device, make interconnection reflects the real value of all things.
Distributed technology, as the key technology for realizing the full range of digital life services, is the “hard nuclear weapon” behind HarmonyOS. It is also the technology direction that Huawei is investing a lot of energy in developing based on the rich range of smart terminal products and over 700 million end users.
HarmonyOS: Pursuing ecological expansion for the future
When it comes to development, ecology is indispensable.
When HarmonyOS was launched, it was conceived as a future-oriented, all-scenario distributed operating system that not only included Huawei’s all-scenario end products, but also supported a wide range of IoT devices. With such a wide range of coverage, Huawei has no choice and cannot go it alone in developing HarmonyOS’s ecosystem.
In a healthy industrial development, openness and collaboration must replace isolation and fragmentation, which is exactly what Huawei wants to do. Huawei’s industrial proposition is to open up and build an ecosystem together. While continuing to expand the ecological boundary, huawei is also exploring new industry models with ecological partners upstream and downstream of the whole industrial chain.
Huawei’s consumer business CEO Richard yu, said in a recent meeting in huawei invested enormous in technology research and development, has experienced a difficult process, huawei will now in the age of wisdom the whole scene, in the operating system, chips, such as databases, cloud services, IoT standard ecological gradually construct the new ability, yu said, only take root, to make the ecological development.
However, whether it is software or hardware, construction and implementation need the joint efforts of the entire ecosystem. Huawei has made many successful attempts in the past year, which has given it and the industry more confidence.
On the other hand, the hardest part of building a successful operating software is not the development process, but also the ecology. Although Huawei is the only company in the world with a combination of cloud, pipe, terminal and core, the best operating system and related hardware will be put on the shelf without an ecosystem of software applications that attract consumers.
Therefore, Huawei opens its experience and core technologies accumulated in the ICT field to developers for free, gathering more developers, partners and users in this way, and injecting new source power into the development of the industry. Being open is powerful, which is why HarmonyOS ‘ecosystem has come a long way in just one year, and we are looking forward to seeing what new changes HarmonyOS 2.0 will bring to the industry.
HarmonyOS 2.0: Exploring the future of Innovative experiences
According to various sources, HarmonyOS 2.0 is likely to be unveiled at HUAWEI Developer Conference 2020. What innovations and upgrades can we expect from HarmonyOS 2.0?
The first is the distributed technology we mentioned. It is believed that after one year of technology implementation, distributed technology will be upgraded comprehensively in terms of capabilities and services in the upcoming 2020 Huawei Developer Conference.
The second is the interconnection of various distributed devices in different application scenarios. Will there be any new life scenarios that HarmonyOS will be able to connect to when its hardware is connected? Will there be new solutions at the medical, industrial, agricultural, transportation and other large industry levels? Will HarmonyOS improve its distributed security capabilities by balancing the rigid needs of its users? That will soon be clear.
In addition, harmonyos-related technology links have been upgraded. HarmonyOS 1.0 also includes core technologies and capabilities such as the Ark compiler, distributed soft bus, and multi-terminal development IDE, which have been iterated and updated to varying degrees over the past year. When these improvements come together, the new Harmony 2.0, It’s gonna make us look good again.
At this point in time, HarmonyOS is slowly following a unique path, as expected. Software and hardware are very different, software development and landing compared with hardware has an obvious lag. It takes a year or two for a powerful software update to become widely accepted. HarmonyOS ‘capabilities are seen by those in the industry as a’ future-oriented ‘product, and the imagination is wide open.
As an annual time to flex our muscles, we look forward to more surprises from HarmonyOS 2.0, but we also hope that Huawei will be able to resist the pressure and make steady progress in this special period, providing better services and products to consumers and creating more value for the ecosystem.