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The OpenHarmony project has been open-sourced and co-constructed since September 2020. It has grown for more than two years and now ranks first in the activity index of domestic code hosting platforms. It has attracted more than 130 industry partners to participate in the co-construction of the OpenHarmony community, and has applied Open source projects, research and development based on OpenHarmony industry distribution or development version or commercial equipment.
At the OpenHarmony Developer Conference 2023 on April 19, Sun Wenlong, chairman of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, introduced that more than 5,100 developers have contributed code to the OpenHarmony community, and the current project code volume exceeds 100 million lines. “The OpenHarmony application ecology has achieved initial results. More than 260 software and hardware products have passed the compatibility test, covering a wide range of industries such as energy, finance, transportation, education, government affairs, and home furnishing.”
The reporter of “Kechuangban Daily” noted that in order to promote the development of the local digital economy, the governments of Shenzhen, Fuzhou and other places issued specific measures or consultation drafts last year to cultivate the ecology of Hongmeng and Euler, and the market for open source Hongmeng is growing.
In addition, in terms of ecological construction, the current number of open-source Hongmeng adapter chip hardware has increased. Starting from the foundation of thickening the underlying hardware layer, it will help the ecological promotion and commercialization of open-source Hongmeng.
Improve the experience of complex devices with screens
“OpenHarmony open source is a major event in China’s open source industry. It is an innovative smart terminal operating system that is oriented to the present and the future.” Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, commented on the value of OpenHarmony.
As the base of digital infrastructure, the operating system plays an important role in the information technology system to undertake the upper-level software and underlying hardware resources. influenced by its ecology.
Therefore, regarding building a smart terminal operating system as the foundation of the digital economy, Ni Guangnan said, “It is a long-term and arduous task to face both the present and the future.” OpenHarmony has three technical characteristics that determine its operation as a smart terminal. The system is expected to take on this important task: first, architecture decoupling, flexible deployment; second, hardware mutual assistance, resource sharing; third, one-time development of multi-terminal deployment, which is a new generation of operating system for the integration of multiple application scenarios.
OpenHarmony 3.2 Release was officially released yesterday. Ren Gelin, chairman of the OpenHarmony Project Management Committee (PMC), introduced that the new version comprehensively improves the experience of complex devices with screens, and continues to iterate, innovate, and improve in terms of system fluency, system functions, application performance, distributed capabilities, and development efficiency. The base capabilities have matured enough to support ecosystem partners in developing complex devices with screens, complex large-scale applications, extremely high-performance applications, and distributed innovative experiences.
A reporter from “Kechuangban Daily” learned at the booth of Beijing Wanlihong Technology Co., Ltd. at the conference site that the company’s tablet computers and a variety of rich devices with screens based on OpenHarmony have already been implemented, and there are also government ecological practices based on OpenHarmony. . In addition, a number of companies exhibited multi-scenario complex terminal products with screens, such as medical medicine cabinets, industrial drones, and Zaihong student terminals.
Wu Haixin, member of JD Retail front-end channel and head of Web professional force, shared JD’s practice and development plan of application development based on OpenHarmony. He said that by trying OpenHarmony to componentize multiple projects, the collaborative development efficiency of large-scale APPs has been greatly improved, and the overall project compilation time has been reduced by more than 70%. At the same time, the JD MCube dynamic cross-terminal solution developed by JD.com has been adapted to OpenHarmony. In the future, JD.com will continue to carry out large-scale APP engineering transformation based on OpenHarmony to create JD.com’s systematic technical architecture.
Gu Haibo, head of the open platform of Tencent Input Method Department, shared on the spot the development practice and implementation cases of Tencent Sogou Input Method based on OpenHarmony distributed technology. He said that with the development of OpenHarmony distributed technology, Sogou Input Method can realize multi-terminal UI adaptation , cross-screen linkage, free flow, computing power collaboration, distributed data synchronization, multi-form and multi-capability input methods, etc.
Business landing keeps pace with demand growth
Commercial equipment based on OpenHarmony is maturing and developing. So far, OpenHarmony has accumulated more than 120 commercial devices, covering finance, education, transportation and other fields.
Hou Peixin, chairman of the working committee of the OpenHarmony project group, expects that in the first half of this year, a variety of POS machines and screen-rich devices in the financial industry will be commercialized, and these products have passed relevant compatibility tests; OpenHarmony will also have related applications in the education industry this year. In addition to the electronic student ID card released last year, there are also products such as teaching experiment boxes and examination tablets; in the field of digital government affairs, the government affairs tablet will also be the highlight of this year’s implementation.
Regarding the commercial exploration of the open source Hongmeng, Ren Gelin, chairman of the OpenHarmony project management committee, said in an interview with a reporter from the “Kechuangban Daily”: “As an innovative smart terminal operating system for the next generation, OpenHarmony must provide users with innovative and valuable information. , Competitive business scenarios, and secondly, these businesses also need to be able to truly solve the pain points of customers and be willing to pay for upgrading the system in order to form a business cycle. At the same time, we will also collect business needs, aim at the potential needs of companies in industry scenarios and realize The technical capabilities required for this requirement are planned into the new version of OpenHarmony to promote business closure.”
The reporter of “Kechuangban Daily” noted that in order to promote the development of the local digital economy, the governments of Shenzhen, Fuzhou and other places issued specific measures or consultation drafts last year to cultivate the ecology of Hongmeng and Euler, and the market for open source Hongmeng is growing.
Among them, Shenzhen plans to spend real money to encourage open source contributions and open source product development, support the development and growth of distribution companies in Shenzhen, and more importantly, also propose to support equipment companies to purchase Hongmeng Euler modules, and support software companies to develop Hongmeng Euler applications , Promote the application of Hongmeng Euler in thousands of industries. Among Fuzhou’s three measures to speed up the development of Fuzhou’s Hongmeng ecological industry, it encourages enterprises to carry out Hongmeng adaptation, supports innovative demonstration applications, and creates an environment for industrial development.
The ecology needs to achieve endogenous development
The reporter of “Kechuangban Daily” learned that in the field of chip support, the open-source Hongmeng currently supports 23 chips, and the supported chip architecture is based on the ARM architecture, which is derived and integrated into new CPU architectures such as the MIPS architecture and the Godson architecture. support. At the same time, it is also transplanting RISC-V Pingtouge 1520 chip and X86 i3 chip. In the future, there will be multi-architecture CPUs to support OpenHarmony.
Ren Gelin said that chips are generally adapted by chip manufacturers and operating systems together. After the chip itself is connected with the system, product manufacturers only need to do productization work.
More importantly, this means that, on the one hand, the foundation from the hardware layer to the bottom layer has basically been laid; on the other hand, it will also help the ecological promotion and commercialization of the open source Hongmeng.
“The ecological composition of the operating system can be regarded as a concentric circle. The innermost layer is the operating system, followed by the CPU on the periphery, and then the driver peripheral factory, as well as equipment factories, application vendors, third-party libraries, etc.” It is understood that, At present, the ecological expansion progress of the open source Hongmeng has basically covered the above links. In addition to more than 120 commercial devices, OpenHarmony has accumulated 29 releases of OpenHarmony from 16 manufacturers that have passed the compatibility test.
Ren Gelin said that the ecological construction of OpenHarmony is like a snowball. It will be very difficult at the beginning, but once it gets bigger and bigger, more similar project partners will join. When reaching the top of the mountain, everyone will follow up naturally, and the ecology will form a benign endogenous development.
“I judge now that we are climbing the slope, but we can already see the top of the slope, and we need to work harder. When the ecology really improves, we don’t need to spend special energy on expanding the ecology. What we have to do later It is to control the direction and let the ecological development go in the right direction.” Ren Gelin said.
