The much-watched Harmony OS officially appeared at the Huawei Developers'Conference on August 9. Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei Consumer Business, said it was the first full-scene distributed operating system based on micro-kernels in the world. At the same time, the Hongmeng operating system has been adapted to the mobile phone and is "available at any time", but Huawei mobile phone will give priority to supporting Android system considering the factors of partners and Android ecosystem. If the Android system can not be used in the future, it can be activated at any time in Huawei mobile phone, and the workload of Android ecological migration to Hongmeng is very small.
Service Scene Intelligent Life Strategy
According to Yu Chengdong's on-site introduction, Huawei has carried out the development and verification of Hongmeng Operating System Kernel 1.0 technology as early as 2017. The birth of Hongmeng Operating System is not just a "spare tire". Liang Hua, chairman of Huawei, also emphasized earlier that "Hongmeng system is not a negotiation strategy". The mission of Hongmeng Operating System is closely related to the core strategy of Huawei's consumer business issued by Yu Chengdong at the developer's conference.
Yu Chengdong introduced that the long-term strategy of Huawei's consumer business in the next 5-10 years is "full-scenario wisdom life strategy", which will become the leader of full-scenario wisdom life by building a 1+8+N product system with partners.
Yu Chengdong introduced that the original intention of Hongmeng Operating System was to meet the high standard connection requirements of full-scene intelligent experience, but there are two problems in Android or other Linux-based operating systems: one is the huge redundancy of the kernel code, which makes it difficult to guarantee the smooth experience of different terminals; the other is the deep binding of software ecology and hardware, which reduces the level of the system. User experience and development efficiency.
Yu Chengdong said that Hongmeng Operating System has solved the above problems, thus greatly improving its capability and facing the future. "Hongmeng Operating System is a completely new Scenario-Oriented distributed operating system based on micro-kernel, which can meet the requirements of full-scene smooth experience, architecture-level trusted security, seamless collaboration across terminals and one-time development of multi-terminal deployment."
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Yu Chengdong introduced the scene from many aspects, Hongmeng is stronger than Android. According to the research data of Societe Generale Securities (601377, diagnostic stock), Android accounted for more than 76% of the mobile operating system market in the first quarter of 2019, while Apple's IOS system accounted for 23.65%.
Hongmeng system has four technical characteristics: firstly, it uses distributed structure to enable developers to focus on their own business logic, develop cross-terminal distributed applications like the development of the same terminal, and also enable end-users to enjoy strong cross-terminal business collaboration capabilities, bringing seamless experience for each use scenario. Second, natural fluency. By using two technologies of deterministic delay engine and high performance IPC, Hongmeng system solves the problem of insufficient performance of existing systems. The application response delay is reduced by 25.7%, and the process communication efficiency is improved five times than that of existing systems. Third, kernel security. Hongmeng system adopts a new micro-core design, with stronger security features and low latency. Fourth, ecological sharing. Hongmeng system develops IDE with multi-terminal, compiles in multi-language and distributes Kit to provide screen layout control and automatic adaptation of interaction, supports dragging and pulling of control, and preview-oriented visual programming, so that developers can efficiently build multi-terminal automatic running APP based on the same project to achieve real one-time development and multi-terminal deployment. Sharing ecology across devices.
In addition, according to Yu Chengdong, Huawei Ark Compiler is the first static compiler to replace Android Virtual Machine model, which allows developers to compile high-level language into machine code at one time in the development environment. Ark compiler will support multi-language unified compilation in the future, which can greatly improve the development efficiency.
Industry insiders said that the key to the development of operating systems is ecology, and the key to ecology is application and developers. Yu Chengdong said that in order to promote the ecological development of Hongmeng OS rapidly, Hongmeng OS will open source to global developers, promote the establishment of open source foundation, establish open source community, work with developers to promote the development of Hongmeng OS, and make suggestions on industrial or technological development through discussion.
Zhang Ping-an, president of Huawei Consumer Cloud Services, said Huawei would invest $1 billion to fully support developers and build Huawei's ecosystem.
Finally, Yu introduced the evolution of the Hongmeng operating system. Huawei will take the lead in using version 1.0 of the Hongmeng operating system in the smart screen products launched on August 10. In the next three years, besides improving related technologies, Hongmeng Operating System will gradually be applied in more intelligent devices such as wearable, intelligent screen, locomotive and so on.