Huawei has begun offering a beta version of its Harmony OS 2.0 to developers of large-size display devices, wearables and head-mounted units
Huawei has begun offering a beta version of its Harmony OS 2.0 SDK to developers of large-size display devices, wearables and head-mounted units and will also make it available to smartphone developers in December 2020, according to the company.
Huawei showcased its homegrown mobile platform, the Harmony 2.0, along with its next-generation HMI (human-machine interface) EMUI 11 and HMS (Huawei Mobile Service) at the recently concluded Huawei Developer Conference 2020.
Market observers believe that Huawei’s move is a countermeasure against the US trade ban on its using Google Mobile Service (GMS), and it aims to mitigate the impacts by building an ecosystem optimizing third-party resources via its in-house-developed OS, apps and related market solutions.
The Chinese telecom giant said that its HMS ecosystem has accumulated more than 96,000 apps thanks to contributions from 1.8 million developers worldwide, and that the number of active users of its app store, the AppGallery, has reached 490 million.
Huawei expects its HMS ecosystem to continue to expand along with the launch of the Harmony 2.0 OS and the increasing adoption of cross-sector devices.
The article is originally published at Digitimes.