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Huawei once again shed light on its “HarmonyOS global expansion” plan. The company recently held a roundtable discussion with the media, where it revealed that the aim of bringing its self-developed operating system worldwide is still underway.

Richard Yu, the Executive Director, Chairman of the Investment Review Board, and Director of Huawei Consumer Business, recalled HarmonyOS’s growth to date.

The firm has expanded its in-house OS on a large scale, from using it in a series of products like phones, tablets, and wearables, to integrating it into PC and smart cars.

And now the plan is Huawei HarmonyOS global expansion. Richard said that the company is looking forward to expand its OS worldwide. Though this will take time.

“We are considering gradually bringing HarmonyOS to the global market in the future. That’s just our initial plan, though. We will do that slowly, step by step.”

HarmonyOS has now become another OS ecosystem after Apple iOS and Google Android, supporting all smart devices and hardware across all types of scenarios.

In addition, HarmonyOS helped the company to extend its supply chain in China, getting rid of US tech products. 2024 appeared as a major switch for Huawei in the OS category as it launched the Android-free HarmonyOS NEXT.

Since then, Huawei has continued to improve its software iteration in five core aspects: smoothness, security, intelligence, refinements, and connectivity. The development that kicked off in 2019 has reached a wide spectrum.

HarmonyOS ecosystem now has over 90 million devices, 450,000 apps and services, 11 million developers, and 23,000 app innovation partners. He added:

>“Developing an operating system is no easy task. There were previous attempts by other brands like Windows Phone from Microsoft, the bada OS from Samsung, and Symbian from Nokia. They were not successful. Even though we did it many years later, we have succeeded. I think this is certainly incredibly difficult to achieve.”

https://www.huawei central.com/huawei-says-harmonyos-global-expansion-plan-is-underway/

HarmonyOS native apps and ecosystem for global early adopters/enthusiasts imported Huawei devices (The list will be updated overtime)

Porting Oniro to Volla Phone Plinius

SDL3 Ported To HarmonyOS / OpenHarmony - Phoronix

Introducing FirebaseWrapper SDK, open source Firebase for OpenHarmony/Oniro & HarmonyOS by AppFactory allows developers to enable Firebase API keys and test native push and in-app messaging within HarmonyOS apps!
https://github.com/BA4893/FirebaseWrapper

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/openharmony-technical-conferenceglobal-tickets-1997946773583

Source: DigiTimes

Follow-up with HarmonyOS 7.0.0.102:

- Celia is the smartest integrated AI agent in a phone that I have ever seen. It is able to control my screen by itself based off commands that I give to it. It can send Discord friend requests, scroll through TikTok, play YouTube videos from voice control and much more (remember that western apps run in a container). It is also able to memorize anything now as well, so you can just tell it to speak English from now on and it will. You can add any photo from your Gallery to its memory, and occasionally it will spy on your screen to collect more data about you (you can see it on the bottom navigation bar pill of the screen when it does). You can tell it anything and it will remember it. Some crazy dystopian shit

- Massive update for Android app support. The container is now based on Android 16, making it compatible with many more apps, and since the latest version it now passes even more security checks, making apps like Revolut finally work, along with many more banking apps and whatnot.

- The UI is now filled with animations for literally every action you can think of. Every tap has some kind of unique animation now. Everything feels alive. You must see videos about it, I can't describe in words how cool it looks.

- Celia Keyboard has been upgraded, it now has prediction and auto-correction with English

- More liquid glass. Less opaque backgrounds

- The lock screen clocks have been updated and you can now set the font stroke size and there is a new 3D clock placement feature.

- You can turn photos into 3D live motion pictures now

- EasyAbroad is now in English if your language is not set to Chinese.

- Android apps that are being downloaded will now also have the downloading/installing animation on the home screen icon

- Android apps can display overlays over the native system (the Shazam bubble/pop-up works, NewPipe works for PiP YouTube videos, Messenger chat bubbles work).

- Android apps can be stacked or floated in freeform windows, you can have up to 3 apps on your screen at the same time

- Many more features that I probably don't know about.. Explore It™

Problems that still need to be resolved:

- Android Auto support

- Widevine L1

- Unreliable notifications (depends on the app)

- Language support (23 languages supported currently):
Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Russian, Arabic, English, Spanish, Uyghur, Tibetan, Lao, Japanese, Korean, Malay, French, Thai, Vietnamese, Portuguese, Indonesian, German, Turkish, Italian, Burmese, Polish

As always, I highly recommend buying the Chinese version over global for many reasons, especially if you live in the EU. We get weekly/monthly **feature** updates, and each update is making the experience better.