Huawei Developer
Conference 2020 (Together) was held today at Songshan Lake. In the keynote
speech, Huawei announced major upcoming updates for HarmonyOS 2.0, EMUI 11, HMS
(Huawei Mobile Services), HUAWEI HiLink, and HUAWEI Research. These
improvements will empower global developers and ecosystem partners to provide
enhanced and innovative user experiences for users. At the event, Huawei also
unveiled six new products that will contribute to Huawei’s all-scenario
experience – HUAWEI MateBook X, HUAWEI MateBook 14, HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 Pro,
HUAWEI FreeBuds Pro, HUAWEI WATCH FIT and HUAWEI FreeLace Pro.
During the three
days, Huawei will bring together developers from around the world through
various exciting activities, including Lakeside Talks, Tech. Sessions, Tech.
Hour, Codelabs and more. The itinerary will provide opportunities for
developers to network, collaborate, and explore ways to bring smart all-scenario
experiences to every user.
“Huawei’s breakthrough in ecosystem development is a result of the strong
support from global developers and partners. Huawei will fully open core
technologies as well as software and hardware capabilities to developers,
collaborating with them to drive further innovation of an all-scenario smart
ecosystem,” said Richard Yu, Executive Director and CEO of Huawei Consumer Business
Group. “Stars shine through even the
darkest night. Each of our developers is a star. Together they form a brilliant
array. That will light the way. ”
HarmonyOS 2.0: Officially Open Source with
Mobile HarmonyOS Beta Available to Developers by Year End
Huawei announced its
all-scenario experience operating system, HarmonyOS, back in 2019. Since then,
a robust line-up of devices has been developed for the system, facilitating
quick device discovery, instant connection, hardware collaboration, and
resource sharing between multiple smart devices. HarmonyOS 2.0 is announced today,
bringing a comprehensive upgrade to its existing distributed capabilities,
including software bus, data management, and security. Huawei also introduced
an adaptive UX framework that allows developers to quickly reach tens of
millions of new devices and users.
With the latest
update, HarmonyOS will officially be open-source and developers will be able to
gain access to emulators, SDK packages, and IDE tools. The open source project,
which is donated to Open Atom Foundation, will be launched in stages with a
mobile HarmonyOS beta release planned firstly for Chinese developers at the end
of 2020. Richard Yu announced the roadmap for HarmonyOS in his keynote speech. “Starting on 10 September, HarmonyOS is
open to 128KB-128MB IoT devices, such as smart TVs, wearables, cars and more.
In April 2021, we will open it to 128MB-4GB devices and in October 2021,
HarmonyOS will be opened for devices above 4GB,” he said.
Based on the
distributed technology in HarmonyOS, the newly released EMUI 11 enables
interaction beyond smartphones. The new operating system allows devices
interact with HarmonyOS-based IoT devices, bringing a unique all-scenario
experience to users, including using the camera of a bigger-screen device for
video calling. The process is powered by the touchless connection between
smartphones and HarmonyOS-based home devices, enabling screen projection and
more.
Huawei Mobile Services (HMS)
Ecosystem: Breaking Ground as The World’s Third Largest Mobile App Ecosystem
With the support of
more 1.8 million registered developers worldwide, AppGallery and the HMS
ecosystem has continued to show progress this year. AppGallery currently has
over 96,000 apps integrated with HMS Core and more than 490 million global
active users. In addition, it also achieved a record 261 billion app downloads
and distributions between January and August 2020.
In a single year,
HMS Core 5.0’s open capabilities have increased from 14 Kits to 56 Kits, while
the number of APIs has jumped from 885 to 12,981 covering seven major areas,
helping developers achieve innovation and simplify the development process.
For instance, the CG
Kit in the Graphics field improves graphics, image quality and experience, as
well as improving game screen rendering efficiency. Location kit in the App
Services category meets the positioning requirements, providing centimetre to
millimetre accuracy location tracking depending on the scenario.
Huawei is committed
to fully opening its core software and hardware capabilities. It has opened up
core software services, such as browsing, search, map, payment, advertising
kits, to accelerate innovation in app development. Huawei has also open up
hardware capabilities such as its world-class camera capabilities, AR map
capabilities, communication and transmission tools, as well as its leading
privacy and security protection capabilities. Through these, Huawei seeks to
empower developers to create a new generation of well-loved innovative apps
across different categories.
Huawei also has
extensive support to assist developers explore business opportunities in China
and other global markets, by providing relevant consulting service,
localization and integration, marketing and campaign services.
Going forward, Huawei continues to expand
developer services. Huawei is building three global ecosystem cooperation labs
in Russia, Poland, and Germany to serve global developers and provide
enablement, testing, and certification services. Five global developer service
centres will also be established in Romania, Malaysia, Egypt, Mexico, and
Russia, providing local services and platforms to help developers better grow
and innovate.
HUAWEI HiLink:
Enabling Billions of IoT Devices to Connect, Manage and Exchange
As the standardised
language of IoT Devices, HiLink breaks down barriers between IoT devices from
different brands and manufacturers, providing a unified platform where devices
can connect easily, and interact seamlessly.
This year, upgrades
to HUAWEI HiLink will be made in five key areas: connection, interaction,
operation, solution provider, and authentication. The goal is to make billions
of IoT devices connect easily, more convenient to manage and control, and
interact seamlessly to enable an all-scenario hardware ecosystem. At present,
there are 50 million active users contributing more than 1 billion all-scenario
device interaction requests every day, with a cumulative 400 million downloads
of the Smart Life App
Automobile is also a
key tenet of the IoT industry. The HiCar platform will continue to empower
automobile industry. HiCar is currently collaborating with over 150 car models
with more planned so that more car owners will enjoy the new smart travel
experience in the near future.
Huawei is committed
to the growth of the IoT hardware ecosystem. By providing more devices with
access to HiLink platform, it strives to make IoT development easier and more
efficient, enabling Huawei to simultaneously support partners in establishing
industry leadership in the IoT sector.
HUAWEI Research:
The innovative research platform
HUAWEI Research,
which focuses on front-end research, opens two key platform capabilities HUAWEI
Research Kit and HUAWEI Research Cloud. These capabilities facilitate efficient
innovative research processes, accelerate technological breakthroughs, incubate
apps innovations as well as quickly achieve result transformation. As a result,
scientific research institutions, innovation institutions, industry organisations,
medical institutions and other industry partners are empowered, allowing
industries from all sectors to prosper.
In the Active Health
Field, Huawei assisted in heart health research by ensuring that health
research data collected is accurate and diverse. In the Travel Safety Field,
mobile and wearable devices intelligently collaborate with automobiles to bring
new safe-driving technologies such as the collision avoidance system and driver
fatigue care. In the Home Life Field, Huawei harness multi-device wireless
sensing capabilities to provide features, such as fall detection, non-inductive
breathing monitoring and spatial positioning.
Huawei will continue
to drive its software and hardware ecosystem moving forward. It is committed to
opening up core technologies and capabilities further and empowering global
developers and partners to create new possibilities together.
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