On the first day of its Huawei Developer Conference in Dongguan City, the Chinese tech giant unveiled its much-talked-about Android replacement, Harmony OS. As part of the presentation, the company’s Consumer Business Group CEO, Richard Yu, said that Harmony OS is a microkernel-based distributed operating system that will support Android apps. He had earlier claimed that the software will be faster and smoother than Android.
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Like Google’s upcoming Fuchsia OS, Harmony is also a microkernel-based operating system that comes with its own ARK compiler that developers can use to compile code from multiple languages, such as C/C++, Java, Kotlin and more. The company has also promised to make an SDK available for developers to create apps across all supported devices – from smartphones to automobiles and more. Huawei also reportedly plans to release the Harmony source code soon, making it an open-source software.
