On June 21, the 2024 Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) officially opened, bringing the new HarmonyOS The latest technological innovations, such as NEXT, Pangu Model 5.0, Ascend AI Cloud Service, and GaussDB database, share the new capabilities of the HarmonyOS ecosystem and continue to bring innovative experiences to consumers and developers.

HarmonyOS native applications have entered a full-scale sprint stage

In his keynote speech, Yu Chengdong, Executive Director of Huawei, Chairman of the Device BG, and Chairman of the Intelligent Vehicle Solution BU, shared the latest progress of the HarmonyOS ecosystem. The HarmonyOS operating system was officially released on August 9, 2019, lasted 1,778 days, and after four generations, the number of HarmonyOS ecological devices has exceeded 900 million, and 2.54 million HarmonyOS developers have invested in the development of HarmonyOS World, with 4.35 million HarmonyOS Academy students and 82.7 billion developer service calls per month.

HarmonyOS is the first operating system for the Internet of Everything, including tablets, smartphones, cockpits, and IoT devices.

HarmonyOS, an all-scenario intelligent operating system based on OpenHarmony Today, NEXT launched a beta upgrade for developers and pioneer users, bringing innovative experiences such as all-scenario, HarmonyOS native intelligence, and native security.

HarmonyOS native apps have entered a full-scale sprint stage, and more than 5,000 commonly used apps have all started development, of which more than 1,500 have been put on the shelves.

|HarmonyOS For the first time, NEXT has integrated AI capabilities into the system

HarmonyOS NEXT also brings powerful AI capabilities to the HarmonyOS ecosystem, focusing on image intelligence, call intelligence, document intelligence, cross-application collaboration, etc., Huawei has comprehensively built AI capabilities open to applications, and worked with developers to build ecosystem-level HarmonyOS native intelligence.

Privacy protection in the era of AI models is also a key focus for Huawei. Under the Starshield security architecture, HarmonyOS NEXT also rebuilds the security system and order of the operating system, bringing a natively secure system and ecology, and the excellent security capabilities of the HarmonyOS kernel have been highly recognized by the industry and become the first international CC Common operating system kernel for EAL 6+ certificates.

In addition, HarmonyOS NEXT redefines the rules for applications to obtain private data, and after a comprehensive combing, 9 types of unreasonable permissions such as call logs, text messages, phone calls, and reading the list of installed applications are canceled, reducing the management cost of users and reducing the risk of privacy leakage from the root.

In terms of data security, HarmonyOS NEXT has also realized the technological innovation from personal single-device security, multi-device security to multi-person and multi-device collaborative security, and introduced system-level file encryption, which can only be opened by authorized users after files are shared on mobile phones or tablets.

HarmonyOS NEXT is expected to be commercially available in the fourth quarter of 2024 。

The technology has been completely renewed

The HarmonyOS kernel completely replaces the traditional kernel and is more flexible, smoother, and more secure. Huawei's EROFS file system has become the de facto standard for read-only file systems for smart terminals around the world, with random read performance three times higher than EXT4, saving users more than 2GB of storage space. ArkData's new distributed intelligent data base brings Huawei's Gaussian database to the device side, with multi-modal, more intelligent, and high-performance features.

At the same time as the innovation of software root technology, the system architecture has been boldly innovated and the software and hardware core cloud has been deeply integrated, HarmonyOS The overall performance of NEXT is compared to that of HarmonyOS 4. Increase by 30%.

With the support of the new structured concurrent programming model FFRT, Ark Multimedia Engine and Ark Graphics Engine, HarmonyOS native applications are more silky and smooth. After "Zhuxian 2" is connected to cloud rendering technology, it supports real-time rendering of more than 1 billion rays per second, bringing PC-level ray-traced image quality to mobile phones.

The ultra-large-scale software WPS, with more than 40 million lines of code, realizes comprehensive transplantation and adaptation, and provides practical experience for the adaptation of other large-scale software. As an important middleware platform for the mobile Internet, Ant Digital's mPaaS will benefit tens of thousands of applications in China.

Huawei has also compiled its thoughts and predictions for the future into the HarmonyOS 2030 White Paper, and announced the preview of tools such as the next-generation programming language Cangjie and the next-generation AI-assisted coding IDE.

Developer Carnival

In the future, HDC will also hold high-frequency and high-energy thematic forums, HarmonyOS student open classes, codelabs, Tech.Hour, HarmonyOS geekathons, and other activities, where developers will have the opportunity to meet Huawei experts face-to-face and collide with the spark of technological innovation.

The Huawei Developer Conference 2024 will be held in Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Wuhan, and Xi'an, where more than 600 developers and enterprise representatives from cities will gather in various cities to watch the live broadcast of the main conference.