Hongmeng Galaxy Edition is here!Applications are now open and commercial use will begin in the fourth quarter
Just yesterday (January 18), Huawei held a ceremony to launch the Hongmeng ecosystem and officially named HarmonyOS NEXT the Harmony Galaxy Edition. This means that the Harmony OS has officially begun to abandon the Android system and build an ecosystem belonging to Harmony.At present, the developer preview version of Hongmeng Galaxy Edition has officially opened for applications. It is expected that the official version of Hongmeng Galaxy will be officially commercialized in the fourth quarter of this year.
On January 18, Huawei held a launching ceremony for Hongmeng Ecosystem.Announced that the Chinese name of HarmonyOS NEXT is Hongmeng Galaxy Edition, and also announced that applications for the developer preview version of HarmonyOS NEXT Hongmeng Galaxy Edition are open.Hongmeng Galaxy Edition is expected to release a developer beta version in Q2 of 2024, and a commercial version for consumers in Q4.At present, more than 200 application manufacturers, including Alipay, Meituan, Xiaohongshu, Weibo, Amap, iQiyi, etc., are accelerating the development of Hongmeng native applications, and more than 100 of them have completed beta version development.
It is understood that the Hongmeng system was initially launched in 2015. It initially supported smart screens, and will support lightweight IoT devices in 2020. In 2021, it will be expanded to mobile phones, tablets, watches, and bracelets. It is currently running on cars and more.on the device.
Yu Chengdong said that the number of Hongmeng ecological devices has exceeded 800 million units so far, achieving rapid growth compared with August 2023.Since last year, the development of Hongmeng Ecosystem has also reached a new level.At present, the first batch of partners developing Hongmeng native applications cover many fields such as convenient life, travel and tourism, financial management, social information, productivity tools, audio-visual entertainment, games, etc. The territory of Hongmeng native applications has basically taken shape.
According to reports, Hongmeng Galaxy Edition will achieve six ultimate native experiences: native refinement, native applications, native smoothness, native security, native intelligence, and native interconnection.HarmonyOS NEXT Hongmeng Galaxy Edition uses the self-developed Harmony kernel, which has a new "heterogeneous native" parallel mechanism and improves memory management efficiency by 3 times.Yu Chengdong said that the Hongmeng kernel surpasses the traditional kernel and is more adaptable to the diversification of devices in all scenarios. The Hongmeng system is a real operating system, and the entire stack is self-developed from programming language to compiler.
In addition, Huawei announced that the official website of the HarmonyOS NEXT developer preview version has been officially launched. At the same time, it provides developers with full-stack online services of software and hardware to help developers better and faster develop Harmony native applications and join the Harmony ecosystem, includingThere are detailed application qualification reviews, Hongmeng ecological application development white papers, Hongmeng development kits, Hongmeng development tutorials, etc., which can provide developers with one-stop services for learning, practicing, testing, and certification.
Huawei also announced the "Shine Star Plan", which will invest more than 7 billion yuan to continue to stimulate ecological innovations such as Hongmeng native applications, meta-services, and SDKs, and quickly build a more powerful and rich Hongmeng ecosystem.
2024 will be an important year for the Hongmeng system to complete its transformation.At present, many applications have developed Hongmeng version. As more and more individuals and enterprises join in the development of Hongmeng applications, Hongmeng Galaxy version will become the first fully self-developed operating system in China, and can compete with Android and iOS.system.
