In mid-December, Huawei finally launched the first HarmonyOS mobile beta, after this Android alternative debuted on televisions, routers, and other devices. This first version it was very similar to EMUI 11 on Android.
From Huawei, they assured that the final version of HarmonyOS will release a new design, but there seems to be a good explanation for the relationship between HarmonyOS and Android: apparently, to this day HarmonyOS is based on Android, according to various tracks compiled by XDA.
AOSP with a few extra steps
In the West, the information from HarmonyOS that reaches us is still a bit of hearsay. The English Version of the official documentation is not as up-to-date as the English one and, although Huawei opened the beta for developers in five mobiles and with an emulator, both ways of testing the system are limited to China continental.
What we know about HarmonyOS is that it is a multipurpose operating system and with microkernel with which the company wants to replace Android. Among its virtues would be found be able to run Android applications, with references to the ARK compiler, but omitting the fact that the system is based on AOSP.
For those who have been able to try HarmonyOS, the conclusion is clear: HarmonyOS is, today, heavily based on AOSP, the open source part of Android. This is evident when testing applications focused on previous versions of Android, which shows a message the same as Android, but changing its name to HarmonyOS.
As if this were not enough, consulting the structure of the folders and files of HarmonyOS through ADB, it is obvious that the entire Android framework is included. Not that there is anything wrong with it: AOSP is open source, just like OpenHarmony, the AOSP equivalent of HarmonyOS. Perhaps what is most striking is that Huawei has played a bit of distraction, because at first it announced HarmonyOS as an “operating system completely different for Android or iOS “.
Now, we are talking about the current situation, so this could change in the future. In Huawei’s roadmap for HarmonyOS, it was mentioned that the AOSP-based version would serve as a transitional way until that completely new, standalone system was ready, with an architecture based on the HarmonyOS microkernel.
Via | XDA
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HarmonyOS for mobile seems to be based on Android AOSP at the moment
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