Huawei Announced About the intention to translate about 100 different models of Huawei smartphones, originally equipped with Android platform, on the HarmonyOS’s own operating system. The first updates will receive the flagship model MATE 40, MATE 30, P40 and MATE X2. For other devices, updates will be formed in stages. Migration is planned to be completed in the first quarter of next year. At the same time, the first tablet, smartphone and smart clocks that will immediately come with Harmonyos are represented.
It is noteworthy that such a migration will not affect users, as in fact, the HarmonyOS edition for smartphones is not a separate OS, but only another Android modification that coincides with Android over the elements of the interface, applications and service services. In the interface proposed for testing, the interface completely coincided with Android 10, but, judging by the prototype shown in the presentation, the platform has already been updated to Android 11, as it includes the specificity specific features.
Differences from Android is mainly reduced to the rebranding, using your appgallery application directory, support for Super Device technology to organize other user devices, replacing the interface to configure the device and supply an enhanced EMUI shell, which has previously been installed in Huawei devices Android database.
Despite the name of the names, Harmonyos for smartphones does not intersect with the editors of Harmonyos for IoT devices, which develops in the Openharmony and is based on on its own microkernel Liteos. It is expected that the new smart watch will host the HarmonyOS based on Liteos (past smart hours Huawei was supplied with Liteos). Those. If earlier Huawei supplied tablets and smartphones under Android, and smart frequents under Liteos, now it will supply them under different options for Harmonyos operating system, which are not the same Android and Liteos.
At the same time, without looking at the full coincidence of all parts of the interface and services in the prototypes available for testing (including the saving of the Android name in the processes’ names), representatives of Huawei in an interview with the TechCrunch continue to argue that Harmonyos is an independent operating system that does not have any common line of code with Android. In this case, representatives of Huawei do not detail what version of Harmonyos is a speech and manipulate that the Harmonyos platform name is used for smartphones and ioT devices, and Harmonyos for IoT devices really has nothing to do with Android.