Huawei’s new system, Harmony OS 2.0 beta, is based on Android

Huawei’s executives have long indicated that due to circumstances related to the US veto, they are going to develop their own ecosystem, which includes a new operating system called Harmony OS.

The idea was to create an alternative to Android that would be compatible with the apps of this system that we use in Spain, but what we did not expect was that the system itself would be based on Android.

Harmony OS 2.0 beta is based on Android

This is what has been seen in the Harmony OS 2.0 emulator that Huawei has put in the hands of the developers. In the following image we see an error message in Android 4.4 and the same message in the Huawei system. The only difference in the message is, of course, the name of the operating system.

The thing is, Huawei has not indicated that Android AOSP is being used as the basis for Harmony OS.

The same is true if we try to use an old Android app on Harmony OS, which indicates that the app has been built for an older version of Harmony OS. The reality is that Huawei seems to have changed the mentions of Android for mentions of its own system, and that’s it.

Even inside the system we see remains of the Android framework, something illogical unless it is because the system needs it.

This, per se, It is not a problem and Huawei may have done so in order to ensure compatibility of existing applications with Harmony.

In the future, a turn could be seen using another technology once the applications use the APIs of the Huawei Mobile Services, being at that time possible to move away from Android. That would explain why Harmony OS is expected to have a different interface than Android in the future.

At the moment we have neither confirmation nor denial by the company about these images, so we will have to wait.

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