On January 18, the Hongmeng Eco Thousand Sail launch ceremony was held in Shenzhen, and the long-awaited HarmonyOS NEXT finally officially debuted. Since Yu Chengdong announced HarmonyOS NEXT in September 2023, the "pure-blood" version of Hongmeng system has attracted much attention.

At this event, Huawei announced that the developer preview of HarmonyOS NEXT Hongmeng Galaxy Edition has been opened to developers for application, and the Harmony ecosystem has entered a new stage.

Hongmeng Galaxy Edition is here, what new features does it have?

In 2019, Hongmeng system was released and gradually updated to HarmonyOS 4.0 version. However, these versions of Hongmeng remain compatible with Android to ensure users’ daily use experience. However, as it continues to develop, Hongmeng has gradually formed its own technological and experience advantages.

For example, Hongmeng’s distributed design allows applications to be deployed on devices of different shapes at the same time, which is more in line with the current trend of intelligent everything. Now, with the arrival of pure-blood Hongmeng, its characteristics will be even more distinctive.

When the Hongmeng Galaxy Edition was released, Huawei mentioned its six major features: native refinement, native ease of use, native smoothness, native security, native intelligence, and native interconnection. These descriptions are all based on the Hongmeng user experience. Huawei intends to bring value to users through a more extreme experience.

## (Source: Huawei)

With native security For example, on terminals such as mobile phones, Hongmeng Galaxy Edition reshapes the security management logic of the underlying technology, that is, from the common permission management on Android devices to data management on Hongmeng devices, further improving security and experience. According to the official introduction, in daily use scenarios, devices equipped with Hongmeng Galaxy Edition can reduce authorization pop-ups by 70%, greatly reducing the interference of authorization reminders to users, while bringing a native security experience.

And native intelligence is reflected in Hongmeng Galaxy Edition’s strong AI basic capabilities, which can directly empower third-party applications. Specifically, the cutout function implemented by Hongmeng through AI is directly used in the Xiaohongshu App, giving users a more convenient experience when using it. The voice reading control provided by Hongmeng plays a role in the Sina Reading App, which can read text content to users with a voice that is close to a real person.

## (Photo source: Huawei)

At the same time, in order to achieve native For an exquisite experience, Hongmeng Galaxy Edition has put a lot of effort into the aesthetic design, including the use of global illumination technology to make the UI interface and the shadow effects of various components more natural, with a stronger sense of three-dimensionality and space. Moreover, on different terminal devices, the aesthetic style remains unified and a consistent family design is maintained.

It can be found that the Hongmeng Galaxy Edition fully considered the experience of developers and users when designing it, and provided them with a lot of technical support and scene adaptation from the bottom up. When implemented in reality, developers can reduce development costs and users can get a better experience in all dimensions. Leadership in technology and functionality is the beginning of an operating system's ability to attract partners and users.

Ecology is the key to the operating system, Hongmeng is rapidly expanding

Looking back at the history of technological development, we can feel To, the importance of ecology to the ecosystem. In the early days of the smartphone industry, the focus of competition was the showdown between operating systems. There used to be many mobile operating systems, but in the end only Android and iOS prevailed. For HarmonyOS NEXT Hongmeng Galaxy Edition, ecology is also an extremely critical issue.

In fact, Huawei’s deployment of Hongmeng Ecosystem is much earlier than the Hongmeng Galaxy version. In 2019, Huawei was already looking for ecological partners. After the announcement of HarmonyOS NEXT in September 2023, a large number of leading companies announced the launch of Beta development of Harmony native applications, including the familiar Bilibili, Amap, Alipay, etc. Lei Technology (ID: leitech) has reviewed Huawei Hongmeng's circle expansion in 2023 in detail in the article "100 days of pure-blood Hongmeng "circle expansion", a long-awaited breakthrough". Please click on the link to view it.

At the launch ceremony of Hongmeng Eco Thousand Sails, Huawei stated that the first batch of more than 200 Hongmeng native applications are already being developed at an accelerated pace, and they all come from leaders in various domestic industries. A number of enterprises cover many fields such as life, finance, travel, audio and video, and games.

(Source: Huawei)

At the same time, there were also many companies on site to share the process of developing Hongmeng native applications. In general, leading companies choose to embrace Harmony native applications largely because HarmonyOS NEXT provides efficient full-link development tools, which greatly reduces the development workload. In this way, the cost for enterprises and developers to launch Hongmeng native applications can be reduced. Moreover, developers can also complete minimalist development through Hongmeng’s meta-services and quickly join the Hongmeng ecosystem.

In addition, the huge potential of Hongmeng Ecosystem is also an important factor attracting developers to join. At the event, Yu Chengdong said that the number of Hongmeng ecological equipment has grown to 800 million. Faced with such a huge ecosystem, it is difficult for any developer with ideas to ignore it. Joining earlier means seizing the opportunity sooner.

(Photo source: Huawei)

In addition to close contact with the head For enterprises and developers, Huawei is also cultivating talents for pure-blood Hongmeng. Huawei has announced that

will invest 7 billion yuan in the "Shining Star Project" to encourage developers to innovate in Hongmeng native applications, meta-services, SDK, etc. Moreover, Huawei has been continuing to promote the joint training of developers by universities, and more and more universities and students are embracing the Hongmeng ecosystem.

According to previously announced news, many 985 and 211 universities such as Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, etc. have opened Hongmeng related courses. The talent echelon of pure-blood Hongmeng is growing step by step.

(Source: Huawei)

We can predict optimistically , there will be a large number of Hongmeng native applications appearing in the future, and like hundreds of rivers flowing into the sea, Hongmeng will quickly grow into a huge ecological ocean.

Written at the end

Most people’s understanding of Hongmeng may have started in 2019 Huawei Developer Conference was Hongmeng’s first official appearance. However, the Hongmeng project within Huawei was established much earlier, starting in 2015. Counting this way, as of today in 2024, Hongmeng has entered its tenth year. Today, Hongmeng is already a very successful operating system. As a full-scenario system, it has been installed on a large number of devices and has countless active users.

(Source: Huawei)

Hongmeng Eco Thousand Sail Launching Ceremony The opening of Hongmeng marks that Hongmeng has officially entered the next stage, entering the era of pure-blood Hongmeng. Huawei also announced the roadmap for pure-blood Hongmeng. The developer preview of Hongmeng Galaxy Edition was released on January 18. The developer beta version will arrive in Q2, and the commercial version for consumers will officially debut in Q4. Soon, we will be able to see a full screen of Hongmeng native applications on various types of devices.

Compared with the previous Hongmeng version, the biggest change of Hongmeng Galaxy version is naturally to further decouple from Android. In terms of key underlying technologies, the Hongmeng kernel replaces the Linux kernel. For Huawei and the industry, the important significance of the Hongmeng Galaxy Edition is its greatly improved technological independence. Those who benefit from pure-blood Hongmeng are not only Huawei, but also various industries and users. As Yu Chengdong said:

"Hongmeng Ecosystem has always been It does not belong to a certain company. Hongmeng Ecosystem belongs to every developer and everyone involved in the co-construction."

The above is the detailed content of The release of Hongmeng Galaxy Edition marks the arrival of the pure-blood Hongmeng era, and is not available on Android devices. For more information, please follow other related articles on the PHP Chinese website!