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(Electronic enthusiast network report / Zhang Ying) According to data from overseas research institutions, in the global mobile operating system market in 2021, Android will occupy 73% of the market share, and Apple iOS will occupy approximately 24% of the market share. Since Huawei released Harmony OS in 2019, after three years of hard work, Harmony OS has officially iterated three times. Especially in September 2021, the number of Hongmeng access devices exceeded 100 million, and the mobile operating system market structure was gradually broken. What is the latest development of Hongmeng Ecosystem? What surprises does the highly anticipated Hongmeng 3.0 bring to the industry? Four big names at Huawei Developer Conference 2021 will bring us the latest news.
The latest development of Hongmeng Ecology: 150 million device access volume, future development can be expected
On the afternoon of October 22, 2021, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2021 held in Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Huawei’s Executive Director, Consumer Business CEO, and Smart Car Solutions BU CEO Yu Chengdong announced at the Huawei Developer Conference that HarmonyOS has become the most developed in history. Fast intelligent terminal operating system.
Figure 1: Yu Chengdong, Executive Director of Huawei, CEO of Consumer Business, CEO of Smart Car Solutions BU
“Since the launch of the Huawei P50 series this year, it has been installed on smartphones for the first time. So far, more than 150 million devices have used HarmonyOS, including smart screens, tablets, watches, smart speakers, and IoT devices. It is expected that by the end of the year, 1+8 products equipped with HarmonyOS will be used. It will reach 200 million, and more devices will be equipped with HarmonyOS next year.” Yu Chengdong said.
Figure 2: More than 150 million devices use HarmonyOS
Yu Chengdong shared the latest developments of Hongmeng Ecology. “With the support of 5.1 million developers worldwide, the Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) ecosystem has continued to grow rapidly: more than 173,000 apps have integrated HMS Core; in the first three quarters of 2021, the distribution of App Gallery apps in the Huawei app market will reach 332.2 billion. Developers’ share revenue increased by 62%.”
Hongmeng Ecology has reached a milestone. The Huawei Hongmeng OS system has achieved a huge leap from 0 to 150 million in more than four months. In the automotive field, HarmonyOS has brought a huge improvement to the intelligent and networked user experience of the automotive industry. He revealed that at the end of this year and early next year, Huawei and Xiaokang will release a new generation of luxury mid-size SUVs with innovative HarmonyOS smart cockpits, hoping to bring consumers a world-leading user experience and enable consumers to have the ultimate smart cockpit. Experience.
Figure 3: The new HarmonyOS
Yu Chengdong emphasized that the rapid development of Hongmeng ecology has provided excellent soil for software and hardware partners. More than 16,000 innovative atomic services accurately reach users and provide consumers with one-step services. Through the new HarmonyOS Connect, the massive products of hardware partners also bring consumers a super terminal experience of minimal connection, universal card, minimal interaction, and hardware mutual assistance.
Currently, Hongmeng Zhilian has more than 1,800 partners and 4,000 products. In 2021, more than 60 million new ecological equipment will be shipped. Hongmeng Zhilian’s pre-integrated solution has been supported by 11 chip manufacturers and 28 chips, and 11 modules and 20 models are available. Hongmeng Zhilian has made the development of smart hardware manufacturers efficient and convenient.
On top of HarmonyOS, Hongmeng Zhilian and OpenHarmony, Huawei has built HMS Core 6, which provides the most powerful all-scene mobile service capability base so far. HMS Core 6 provides 69 Kits and more than 21,000 APIs, a significant increase over the same period last year. HMS Core 6 provides the industry with powerful development tools and capabilities such as graphics, media, AI, application services, and connection communications, helping developers to easily and conveniently develop more powerful and innovative application services.
Yu Chengdong said that the prosperity of Hongmeng ecology is inseparable from talent training. Huawei has joined with Peking University, Tsinghua University and other 17 domestic well-known universities to open HarmonyOS courses to provide student developers with rich learning resources; the Huawei Star Program has accumulatively motivated more than 10,000 innovative HarmonyOS applications; at the same time, Huawei launched a comprehensive HarmonyOS career The certification program helps the development of industry talents.
The performance of Hongmeng OS3 is 50% higher than the previous generation, and the preview version is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2022
“Hongmeng is an operating system born for the interconnection of all things. It has three characteristics that are not available in other operating systems in the world: 1. Different devices have the same system, and the core technology behind it is to implement the structural modules of the operating system. Structure. Both Windows and Linux systems have existed for more than 30 years, and it is extremely difficult to re-architect these systems. Second, realize the hardware mutual assistance of all devices, and finally form a super terminal to make the best use of the hardware resources of different devices Third, for developers, Hongmeng’s philosophy is to develop multi-terminal deployment at one time. Why hasn’t it been achieved? This requires a thorough change in development concepts, methods and tools.” said Gong Ti, President of Huawei’s Consumer Business Software Department.
Figure 4: Gong Ti, President of Huawei Consumer Business Software Department
Gong Ti said that HarmonyOS 3 has a 50% performance improvement over HarmonyOS 2, and a 100% improvement in connection stability. “For example, on HarmonyOS 2, we have realized the collaboration of mobile phones and smart screens. However, we have found that if we have smart speakers, smart screens, and smart phones at hand, consider whether we can use smart speakers + smart screens to form a 5.1 provincial home. Cinema. This requires the use of distributed networking technology and sub-second global soft clock synchronization to achieve a cinema-level experience. Hongmeng can also achieve a sound field optimization through the device’s spatial position sensing technology, and truly achieve a cinema-level Experience.” Gong Ti described the synergy between smart screens, smart phones, and smart speakers.
The HarmonyOS 3 developer preview releases a new visual flexible deployment automation tool. Device developers can flexibly select components according to different hardware, easily complete the operating system assembly, and allow more devices to be equipped with HarmonyOS. Innovative heterogeneous networking technology allows distributed capabilities to support more devices, better performance, and build a more robust super terminal base.
The HarmonyOS 3 developer preview also brings a major upgrade of the HarmonyOS application and service development tools such as the Harmony design system, Ark Development Framework 3.0, Ark Compiler 3.0, DevEco Studio 3.0 and HarmonyOS SDK, helping developers to complete end-to-end completion High-efficiency and low-cost development of cross-device HarmonyOS applications and services.
Figure 5: HarmonyOS 3 Developer Beta will be available in Q1 2020
Gong Ti said that the HarmonyOS 3 developer Beta version is expected to be released in the first quarter of 2022. In addition, Huawei announced that it will release a newly developed programming language for HarmonyOS, which will add the last link to the Hongmeng ecological infrastructure.
AI empowers all things in a new era of intelligence, and it is imperative to create new ways of interaction
“Today’s mobile apps are a million-level scale. I believe that in the future, atomic services + apps will reach tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, with more services and more devices. If we don’t change the way people interact with devices, we won’t redefine people. The way of consuming information, the Internet of Everything cannot be realized because the device control is too complicated.” Wang Chenglu, president of Huawei’s consumer business AI and smart full-scenario business department, pointed out the urgency of changing the interaction method.
“How to redefine the way people interact with devices and how people enjoy information and digital services through the technological foundation of Hongmeng Ecosystem and the enabling of AI technology.”
Figure 6: AI flexible deployment, Hongmeng system establishes a new mode of human-computer interaction
Wang Chenglu analyzed and said that let each terminal play the role of a sensor. In the Hongmeng ecology, the HyperTerminal uses the innovative Sensor Grid technology to make every device a sense of the HyperTerminal, realizing more accurate judgments of user intentions, such as mobile phones, watches, treadmills, body fat scales, etc. “Personal trainer”, better understand the user’s physical data and sports needs.
“When we realized that traditional AI models could not train the volatility data generated by hyperterminals, we developed a small-sample real-time training model. Where is the core technology of this model? The core algorithm is technical coding. The unsupervised learning algorithm, through a complete technical vector base, when the signal enters, we can use the basic vector base to characterize the signal. This algorithm effectively avoids the instability of the data and the instability of the sample space. Brings the problem of model fluctuations.” Wang Chenglu introduced the transformation of AI models to respond to end-to-side data.
Figure 7: Hongmeng system one-stop equipment integrated development environment, helping OEM partners to develop efficiently
To help developers and partners easily and efficiently develop Hongmeng Smart Link ecological products and atomized services, Huawei also provides powerful and complete development tools. Hongmeng Zhilian software service package supports the development of more screened devices; the one-stop integrated open environment has reduced the development cycle of lightweight devices from 2 months to 2 weeks, and screened devices are expected to be reduced to less than 2 months in 2023 . The distributed full-stack integrated minimalist development environment has also doubled the development efficiency of atomization services. It is expected that development will be completed in 5 days in 2023.
HMS Core 6, Huawei’s most powerful multi-terminal, cross-operating system mobile service core capability
Zhang Pingan, President of Huawei Consumer Business Cloud Services and Huawei Cloud CEO, said: “In 2020, we released a version of HMS Core 5 to the world, opening up 56 capabilities to seven areas, and simultaneously releasing payment, search, maps, and advertising. The five root services of browsers and browsers are important services for the digital world in the future.
So far, there are more than 173,000 global applications integrating HMS Core’s open capabilities, an increase of 81% compared to the same period last year. The new multi-terminal, cross-OS, and full-scene HMS Core 6 released this time has 13 new open capabilities, 13 cross-operating systems open kits, and 18 enhanced capabilities. The developers of the Hongmeng system have also grown from 1.3 million in 2019 to 5.1 million, and the app store has been downloaded 330 billion times. 730 million users worldwide are using Hongmeng Ecology. HMS ecology has gained a firm foothold in the world.
“In the first three quarters of 2021, in the HMS ecosystem, the revenue of all our application developers has increased by 62%. This is our most happy one. The developer of one of the themes has earned 13 million in revenue. We I am very happy that there are such outstanding developers in the HMS ecosystem.” Zhang Ping An announced.
Huawei has always been developer-centric, and has continuously opened up its core technologies and capabilities to more developers. Our open and abundant capabilities and services are to create a full-scenario intelligent connection of all things application ecological base, making development easier, making innovation more efficient, and making future traceable. “
Figure 8: The latest development of HMS ecology.
HMS Core can provide a full range of services for global mobile application developers, and has the characteristics of security and credibility, global distribution, one-step access, and accurate access to global users. It can effectively reduce development thresholds and costs, allowing developers to focus more on Its own application innovation brings high-quality applications to users.
Figure 9: HMS Core 6 can support multiple operating systems.
This upgrade of HMS Core 6 not only supports HarmonyOS and Android, but also supports other more operating systems, such as OpenHarmony, Windows, iOS, etc., which can be called on multiple devices such as tablets, smart screens, smart watches, and car machines, and provides for the intelligent connection of all things. technical foundation. HMS Core also supports a wealth of third-party development frameworks, such as React Native, Cordova, etc., to help developers around the world integrate HMS Core’s open capabilities more conveniently and flexibly.
HDC’s first digital sign language live broadcast is based on the open sign language service of SignPal Kit, which integrates expert knowledge of sign language linguistics to achieve a coherent and natural sign language body posture with an accuracy rate of over 90%. The 3D Modeling Kit allows users to quickly and automatically generate 3D geometric models and textures of objects with only an ordinary smart phone to take images of objects from different angles, which can be used in e-commerce, animation and other fields. In the future, they can also be combined with 3D printing to solve remote problems. Medical issues. HMS Core 6 also opened up a number of new capabilities and services such as audio and video editing, copyright protection, and digital RMB payment.
Security and privacy protection “Four Propositions and Three Commitments” to build a safe and credible digital world
He Gang, chief operating officer of Huawei’s consumer business and president of Huawei’s consumer business mobile phone product line, said: “The origin of our full-scenario ecological strategy is cyber security and privacy protection. Huawei regards cyber security and privacy protection as the company’s highest program. , The responsibility for the security of the network and business is placed above the company’s commercial interests.
To this end, Huawei puts forward the “four major propositions” for consumer business security and privacy protection: top-down organization and process assurance, formulation of strict privacy and security principles, cooperation with industry authorities to build a security verification system, and an ecological partner Open Huawei’s security and privacy capabilities.
Figure 10: HarmonyOS Connect Eco-Device Security and Privacy Protection Guide
Huawei’s consumer business also solemnly put forward the “three major commitments”: 1. Privacy is the basic right of users, and user privacy is the highest priority in Huawei; 2. All your data is encrypted for you without your permission. , No one can access your data; Third, your information is under your full control, and your consent is required at every step from booting to use. Huawei uses innovative technology to protect user privacy and security. At present, users are provided with comprehensive protection in daily life scenarios such as data security, payment security, authority management, social privacy, identity protection, and service security. Today, the “HarmonyOS Connect Eco-Equipment Security and Privacy Protection Guide” was officially released, so that ecological partners can have evidence and traces to follow when developing products.
At present, there are more than 2,600 full-time personnel engaged in cyber security and privacy protection at Huawei. Huawei not only regards safety and trustworthiness as the most critical corporate social responsibility, but also continues in the areas of information accessibility, education and health, and green environmental protection. Invest. To benefit the world with science and technology, and to create prosperity with trust.
Huawei will continue to adhere to the two-wheel drive of the software and hardware ecosystem with HarmonyOS, HMS, and AI as the core, and further open up its powerful technologies and capabilities, and work with global developers and partners to enrich the Harmony ecosystem, and open up a new version of billions of connections and intelligent connection of all things. era.
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