Is Hongmeng Galaxy Edition still compatible with Android?

The long-awaited HarmonyOS NEXT, the new Hongmeng Galaxy version, has been officially released. Currently, the developer preview version of the Harmony Galaxy version has started its first batch of recruitment and will be commercially available in the fourth quarter of this year.Many friends have a lot of questions about this system. Most of them want to know whether Hongmeng Galaxy Edition is also compatible with Android applications?

Is Hongmeng Galaxy Edition still compatible with Android?

No longer compatible with Android apps

On January 18, Huawei officially launched a completely independently developed version of Hongmeng: HarmonyOS NEXT Hongmeng Galaxy Edition.It comprehensively breaks through the core technology of the operating system. Based on the Hongmeng kernel, it achieves completely independent research and development from the operating system kernel, file system to programming language, AI framework and large models. It is also not compatible with Android, and most of the current operating systems in the worldIncluding Android, iOS, etc. are all based on Linux or Unix kernel.

Hongmeng Galaxy Edition is commonly known as the pure-blood Hongmeng Edition. It is no longer based on the Linux kernel, but the Hongmeng kernel. It has no shadow of any other operating system at all, so it will be completely incompatible with Android applications.For those who are used to Android applications, it may take some time to adapt.