A beta version of the HarmonyOS 2.0 SDK will be available to developers starting September 10. At the moment, it’s just meant for TVs, smartwatches, and in-car entertainment systems.
OpenHarmony project
Yu wants to take the proprietary OS international and is hoping it would give Chinese developers a chance to serve global consumers and vice versa.
We would like to be the bridge in between
The company says that the open-source project currently supports devices with 128KB to 128MB of RAM and it is planning to expand it to devices with 4GB of RAM by April 2021. The memory limit will be removed before October 2021.
In contrast, rival Google and Apple provide millions of apps through their app stores.
Honor Vision and Huawei Router AX3 are two of a few devices that currently run Huawei’s operating system and its reach is 490 million users at the moment. The company has no plants to replace Android entirely with its own OS following the arrival of HarmonyOS 2.0.
