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Huawei has ditched Android. HarmonyOS Next is now China’s operating system with a 100% in-house development rate
By Olivia Hudson2 July 2024
Huawei had no other choice. After the American vetothe Chinese firm was exposed by not being able to implement Google services on its Android phones, as it had traditionally done. It was then that it embarked on its own adventure, HarmonyOS, whose fourth version arrived last summer. Since then, the plans for this operating system, which is based on Android, have been precisely to move away from its origins with HarmonyOS Next.
The distancing of both platforms is a faithful reflection of what happens This is also the case in the chip manufacturing industry, where China and the United States want to be the benchmark for technological development, despite some disputes. Now, Huawei and its nation are in luck: HarmonyOS Next has completed certification of its core or kernel. We tell you what this means important milestone.
HarmonyOS Next’s kernel doesn’t smell like Android
If you’ve been following Huawei’s news, you may know that its operating system is on its way to saying goodbye to Android. HarmonyOS was based on Google’s OSof its free version, to adapt to Huawei devices and its own ecosystem. Not only has it updated smartphones, but all kinds of devices have also entered the equation: televisions, tablets, smartwatches, and finally laptops.Now, in the middle of a technological-commercial confrontation between the United States and China (which seeks total independence), the Chinese Academy of Information and Communications Technology (known by the acronym CAICT) has certified the kernel HarmonyOS, which gives it a grade A level of autonomy. What does this mean? That the operating system has achieved a 100% self-development ratio.
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This is a significant milestone for Huawei, as it has finally, after many years of development, independently perfected the fundamental aspects of the platform, namely, without depending on third-party technologies or components.
The Huawei Mate60 Pro and Pro+ running HarmonyOS and displayed in a Chinese store. Image by Eva Rodriguez de Luis
The government entity belonging to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, stated that the importance of autonomy at the core of this system lies in ensuring national information security capabilities. Thus, they believe that they have improved technological innovation and international competitiveness, to create a favorable ecosystem for their own development.
It was on June 28 that CAICT announced that it had completed the evaluation of the privacy protection capabilities of Huawei’s OS in its Next version. After passing the 38 indicators, it is certified that meets the standards set by the entity.
On the other hand, taking advantage of the context of the annual developer conference (HDC 2024), Huawei’s software president commented that operating systems have been dominated by Europe and the US, and that His own platform has achieved in 10 years what took others 30. He also boasted about the HarmonyOS kernel, which he says is superior to Linux in terms of both security and fluidity, with a performance improvement of 10.7%.
At the moment, without knowing how this new version will fare, we can say that Huawei has succeeded where other giants such as Microsoft or Samsung failed. Apps will not be a problem -as it was for Windows Phone, for example- and that is that They already have 380,000 developers creating apps for HarmonyOS.
