Huawei Just Officially Announced Its Own Operating System, HarmonyOS

Today, Chinese giant company Huawei kicked off its annual developer conference, and it has just announced HarmonyOS. This is the final name for what was previously anticipated as Hongmeng OS, a new, open-source operating system.

According to Richard Yu, the company’s CEO, in his statement to Huawei Developer Conference’s attendees, HarmoyOS is the first microkernel-based operating system for every scenario.

HarmonyOS supports several devices including smartphones, tablets, wireless earbuds, cars, smartwatches, computer, and smart speakers. In fact, the CEO says that this platform can support RAM sizes that range from kilobytes to gigabytes.

As stated by Yu, eventually, HarmonyOS will work with a range of apps, certainly including Linux, HTML5, as well as Android apps. The company's CEO says that those apps will be able to work on its operating system in the future.

He additionally says that the ARK Compiler Huawei used in the app development for this platform is also supporting C++, C, Javascript, Java, and Kotlin.

Before the official announcement from the Chinese giant, the operating system was mentioned as Hongmeng OS. Huawei decided to develop its own operating system because of the pressure from the trade war between China and the US, with the peak tension when US President Donald Trump signed an order effectively banning the country's firms from working with Huawei. The ban order was issued due to privacy concerns over the company's products as it has a close tie with the Chinese government. Since the ban, a number of tech giants suspended their business with Huawei, including Google, the supplier of Android OS supporting every Huawei's phone.