Harmonyos: huawei presents its operating system

Yesterday the Huawei developer conference was held, where HarmonyOS was officially presented. The Chinese brand's operating system is official and will be launched at the end of the year on the market. Although it will launch first on its smart screens, before expanding in 2020 to more devices. It is a system compatible with all kinds of devices, such as telephones, computers and many more.

HarmonyOS: Huawei presents its operating system

The company has used a microkerne l structure to build it from scratch. This is what allows them to create a system that works with all kinds of devices, in addition to supporting various programming languages ​​and applications.

Own operating system

Since HarmonyOS will work with applications in HTML, HTML5, Linux applications, Android applications, written in C ++ or Kotlin. It assumes that developers can create a single version, which will then work on all devices that use the operating system. Much easier for them in this regard. Also, it is an open source operating system. The company has confirmed that it will be updated every year with a new version, with new functions.

As for security, it makes use of a secure execution environment (TEE: Trusted Execution Environment). The Chinese brand has commented that its plans happen because it expands in more devices over time, so that from 2020 it will come to more products. In addition, in 2020 the first laptop with this operating system will arrive.

Initially, HarmonyOS will launch only in China, as the first products and users are in the country only. Although Huawei hopes to be able to expand it worldwide over the months. So in 2020 it may expand into new markets.