It is reported that HarmonyOS has been rolled out to multiple Huawei models. A few days ago, Chinese smartphone manufacturers such as Xiaomi also planned to adopt the system.
The question now is whether other smartphone manufacturers can use HarmonyOS. The answer is that Huawei officially welcomes them.
Today, at the Huawei HarmonyOS Partner Summit, Yang Haisong, Vice President of Huawei Consumer Business AI Department, stated in an interview that HarmonyOS is fully open source. This year, open-source code for devices with 128MB to 4GB of memory will be made available.
Regarding third-party collaboration, Yang Haisheng stated that Huawei welcomes other smartphone manufacturers to use the HarmonyOS for open-source development. However, it depends on the manufacturers’ own business considerations.
According to reports, OpenHarmony 2.0 has about 4.6 million lines of core code, which is roughly 30% of Android 10 (15.25 million lines). It also includes about 18,000 core APIs (application programming interfaces), which is more than half of Android’s 10.36 million.
The package size is reduced to 60-70 %, suitable for various devices, including smartphones, tablets, wearables, TVs, and sensors.
OpenHarmony 2.0 has multiple branch versions. The L2 version released this time is a pure Harmony version, containing no Android code. It can run all HarmonyOS applications, including distributed calls and internet features, but the number of applications is still limited.