All Stars Become Galaxy Huawei Releases Hongmeng Kernel Operating System

On January 18, 2024, Huawei held the launching ceremony of Hongmeng Ecological Thousand Sails, at which Huawei announced the realization of disruptive innovation, and the HarmonyOS NEXT Hongmeng Star Edition operating system was officially introduced to everyone. Hongmeng Galaxy version has realized the whole stack self research, abandoned the traditional Linux kernel and AOSP Android open source code, and only supports Hongmeng kernel and Hongmeng system applications. The Hongmeng operating system, which Huawei has honed for ten years, has been officially unveiled.

one The stars in the sky finally converge into a bright river, which can ignite a prairie fire

With China's demand and growing overseas sales, Huawei, together with Samsung and Apple, has become the world's top three intelligences mobile phone manufacturer. Today, those who have access to the operating system win the world. Huawei realizes that it is not an option to stick to the Android based EMUI all the time and will be subject to others. But Huawei also knows that it is more difficult to create a domestic operating system to challenge iOS and Android.

The more difficult the road is, the more meaningful it is to persevere. Huawei is unwilling to be mediocre. Since 2012, it has begun to work on system research and development, and has invested more than 5000 people in the research and development team. With the successive breakthroughs in HMS, IoT and other technologies, Huawei launched the first generation of distributed OS Hongmeng operating system supporting multi devices and multi terminals in the whole scene in 2019 after years of precipitation.

After the release of Hongmeng system, Huawei faced an unprecedented dilemma. Google took the lead and suspended all business dealings with Huawei, including the termination of GMS (Google Mobile Services). Some people even raised doubts about the "Spun Android" and "PPT" system. No one is optimistic about the future of Hongmeng.

In the face of the external technical blockade, they created difficulties and encouraged Hongmeng to become more powerful. At the 2020 Huawei Developers Conference, Hongmeng OS ushered in version 2.0, officially releasing a beta version for application developers. The world's third largest mobile mobile operating system has taken shape from the ground breaking. Yu Chengdong said: No one can extinguish the starlight in the sky. The persistence of Huawei and its developers has paid off for the first time.

At the Huawei Developers Conference in August 2023, Hongmeng has reached 700 million ecological devices, covering mobile phones, tablets, smart wear, smart screens, car cabins, whole house intelligence and other fields. Hongmeng has more than 2.2 million developers. Huawei quoted the saying that "Qingzhou has passed a thousand mountains" to describe the difficult development process in recent years.

On January 18, 2024, Huawei held the opening ceremony of Hongmeng Ecological Thousand Sails in Shenzhen, and Yu Chengdong announced on the spot that the HarmonyOS NEXT Hongmeng Galaxy Edition is open to developers for application. Huawei abandoned the traditional Linux kernel and AOSP Android open source project, and instead created a pure Hongmeng kernel, which only supports Hongmeng kernel and Hongmeng system applications.

The time has come for Hongmeng to be completely independent of Android, because the layout of Hongmeng's base has been improved, from the operating system kernel, file system, to programming language, compiler/runtime, programming framework, to design system, integrated development environment, and AI framework and large model, etc., realizing the self research of the whole stack. Since then, the stars in the sky have finally converged into a bright river, and a single spark can start a prairie fire.

two Ecological Sailing to Help Hongmeng Independence

An independent operating system needs a lot of application adaptation support, which is one of the reasons why Hongmeng has not completely separated from Android before. Up to now, the first batch of more than 200 partners are accelerating the development of Hongmeng native applications. Huawei's own applications have all developed Hongmeng native application versions, including cameras, picture libraries, calendars, weather, music, videos, sports health browser , reading, etc.

Different from Android's design based on Linux macro kernel, Hongmeng system adopts micro kernel architecture, which only retains the most basic and core services at the kernel level, reduces the impact of single module errors in the kernel on the overall system, is superior to Android system in stability, and is easier to expand in modules. In cooperation with Huawei, it has also built a whole stack of technical systems, including Pangu AI big model, Mind SporeAI framework, Ark compiler, Cangjie programming language and other core technologies. The ecological foundation Huawei has built for developers is quite mature, and will show a blowout trend in 2024.

According to Yu Chengdong, at present, the first batch of 200+Hongmeng native applications have started development, of which 100+have completed the beta version of Hongmeng native applications ". In addition, 205 college students participated in Hongmeng activities, 286 enterprises participated in Hongmeng Ecological School, more than 380000 developers passed Hongmeng certification, and more than 150 industry university cooperation projects continued to provide Hongmeng with fresh blood.

Up to now, nearly half of Top200 mobile Internet applications have launched Hongmeng native application development, including Alipay, Meituan, Jingdong, Station B, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Gaode and Mihayou. It covers social networking, video, games, information, finance, food and other fields. They are the sails of Hongmeng. Now the complete Hongmeng ecology has set sail, Hongmeng's operating system has become unstoppable, and the situation that iOS, Android and Hongmeng are divided into three parts has been formed.

three Six experience advantages consolidate Hongmeng's leading position in the industry

In this Hongmeng press conference, Huawei also highlighted the six unique advantages of Hongmeng Galaxy, namely, native delicacy, native security, native intelligence, native ease of use, native fluency, and native interconnection. The new system adopts a new design style, emphasizing the sense of space and family design, enhancing the sense of interface hierarchy through the visual effect design of "light" and "field", and can adapt the layout according to the device shape, providing a consistent and high-quality visual experience.

Taking full advantage of Huawei's self-developed technology, through the vertical integration of soft and hard core cloud Software Layer, chip layer, hardware layer and cloud are optimized together to improve game performance and overall use fluency.

Huawei has deeply integrated AI capabilities into the HarmonyOS system and enabled the 15+subsystem, enabling third-party applications to have a more powerful intelligent experience. AI control capabilities are insensibly integrated into the system, providing 14+system level AI capabilities such as Image, voice reading, etc. Developers can simply call them to achieve intelligent functions.

Based on distributed technology and one-time development of multi terminal deployment, Hongmeng Application supports automatic adaptation of different forms of devices to provide a consistent family experience. Realize natural and non inductive cross device connection. Users can seamlessly switch operations between multiple devices, simplifying the device connection process.

Three years ago, Yu Chengdong said at the press conference that he would give priority to using the Android system in consideration of his familiarity with the Android ecosystem. Once the Android system is no longer available, he can switch to Hongmeng OS at any time. Today, three years later, Hongmeng system has been ready in all aspects, and we have taken the most solid step ourselves. It is believed that the starlight belonging to Hongmeng will officially start in 2024, and the independence of Hongmeng will cause a huge shock in the industry, bringing new changes and development.

It is reported that Hongmeng Galaxy is expected to release the developer beta version in Q2 2024, and the consumer oriented commercial version in Q4. For more information, please look forward to Huawei's subsequent announcement.

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