Strengthening open source and boosting China's strategy of strengthening China's science and technology has become a necessary condition for the prosperity of China's science and technology. develop.
The development of open source in China has a pioneering color, and there is not much ready-made experience to learn from.
A few years ago, when communicating with developers, everyone generally reflected that the open source awareness of Chinese software developers was not that advanced and was still in the enlightenment stage.
Therefore, OpenHarmony announced open source in September 2020. As an important milestone in China's open source development, it has attracted the attention of the software industry and developers.
Now more than two years have passed, and on April 19, the Open Atom Open Source Foundation OpenHarmony Developer Conference 2023 was held with the theme of "open source is the right time for a win-win new future". We found that, through open source and open source, the new generation of intelligent terminal operating system oriented to the world of intelligent connection of all things has been born and awakened in this land of China, and has converged from a trickle of technology to an industrial torrent.
At the scene, we saw the development practices of many industry partners based on OpenHarmony. With the release of OpenHarmony 3.2 Release at the conference, the OpenHarmony community will also enter a new stage of development.
To describe what I have seen and heard in one sentence, it should be in the Book of Songs: "Flying birds call for their flocks, and deer sing for their friends."
Yoyo Luming, ask for the voice of its friends, OpenHarmony gathers the vitality of open source and cooperates together to achieve the ecological prosperity and the unity of all industries that we have seen. As more developers and industry partners join the construction of a new generation of open source operating systems, what kind of "resonance" will it bring?
The Spring of Harmony
OpenHarmony's early growth
For a long time, the image of Chinese software developers in the international open source community has been dominated by users and learners, and rarely as contributors and project leaders. But at the OpenHarmony Developer Conference 2023, I saw that this "stereotype" is being changed.
Many industry partners have given full play to the cross-terminal, all-scenario, and distributed technical characteristics of the next-generation operating system, bringing refreshing practical results, and making OpenHarmony a reality.
The continuous lighting of high-speed tunnel lighting for 24 hours consumes a lot of energy. This is an urgent problem that the current highway management units need to solve. However, traditional tunnels have many types of hardware and software equipment, many manufacturers, and data barriers. The industry needs a unified standard and technical specification. Based on the distributed characteristics of OpenHarmony, Hunan Kaihong Zhigu has developed a Zaihong controller, which allows the data of the sensing, emergency, energy and other systems in the tunnel to communicate with each other, and realizes the intelligent sensing and switching of tunnel lighting. Shandong, Guizhou and other places were delivered for trial use.
In a hospital in Hangzhou, drug control and traceability is a long-standing problem. For example, special drugs such as psychotropic drugs require two-person verification before they can be prescribed. However, it is difficult to effectively and accurately supervise the taking and placing of drugs in an open medicine cabinet. The hospital has introduced the hospital medicine cabinet and management system first developed by Tianao Intelligent based on OpenHarmony, and every time medicine is taken, put, and inventoryed, there are records.
(Kaihong Wisdom Valley Smart Education Scenario Product: Zaihong Student Terminal)
In the education industry, Hunan Kaihong Zhigu uses OpenHarmony's cross-device interconnection capabilities to create a Zaihong student terminal, which can be connected with classroom tablets and skipping ropes to complete homework correction, sports data statistics, and extracurricular practice positioning check-in, etc. Tasks, reducing the troubles of parents accompanying practice counting, students finding practice institutions to stamp layer by layer, etc.
Based on OpenHarmony, Wanlihong has created an office tablet computer with comprehensive self-developed software and hardware. The system fully releases the performance of domestic hardware and ensures the smoothness and safety of use.
(Industrial drone products based on KaihongOS)
The industrial drone jointly built by Shenkaihong and Corbett is based on the core capabilities of the OpenHarmony system, and uses the Kaihong tablet to create a drone twin. The drone can be controlled on multiple devices such as a tablet and a computer, and the drone can be viewed in real time. The screens collected by the machine can be widely used in wind power inspections, public security inspections and other scenarios in the future.
The operating system is known as the soul of the information industry, and is more often associated with national interests, as if it is far away from the lives of ordinary people. Only after the intensive presentation of a series of products and solutions at the OpenHarmony Developers Conference did it become apparent that OpenHarmony has quietly entered the lives of the public.
From using open source, participating in open source, contributing to open source, and leading open source, China's open source force, composed of industry partners and developers, is rapidly rising in the OpenHarmony community, creating and leading an imaginative world of intelligent networking of all things.
In 2023, all industries resonate, and the trickle of OpenHarmony technology has converged into an industrial torrent, taking a new step towards a more dynamic open source community.
To the wilderness of industry
OpenHarmony upgrade again
The success of an open source operating system must support the industry and developers to create effective cases. It must have mature technology, complete capabilities, rich tools, and industry availability.
The latest release of OpenHarmony 3.2 Release can be regarded as a "milestone" of the OpenHarmony system iteration. It undertakes a symbolic mission: to fully support the development of complex devices with screens and complex large-scale applications.
For the new generation of operating systems, why is the completion of this mission so important?
First of all, from the user's point of view, non-screen devices have no interactive capabilities, and small screen devices and simple screen devices can only support very simple UI applications with single functions and poor user experience. The majority of users have long been accustomed to the on-screen interactive experience and rich applications of the mobile Internet. If an operating system cannot support complex on-screen devices, it cannot be widely accepted.
After five versions of polishing, OpenHarmony 3.2 Release can fully support complex standard devices with screens.
At this conference, Beijing Wanlihong Technology took the lead in launching a tablet computer based on version 3.2, which obtained the OpenHarmony compatibility test certificate, equipped with self-developed online Office and browser, ensuring application security and fluency, and satisfying government users. Requirements for equipment security and performance.
This means that OpenHarmony has gone through the "growth period" and has come to an inflection point of accelerated growth in the scale of end users.
Secondly, from the perspective of developers, complex devices with screens, such as smartphones, tablets, watches, POS machines, point readers, face recognition terminals, etc., can support more diverse interactions, richer complex applications, and better To fully meet the needs of users, there are more business opportunities, and the delivery value of commercial equipment is also higher.
Many well-known mobile games, such as King of Glory and Yuanshen, are developed using the Unity engine. At the same time, Unity China is also actively developing in the fields of car machine HMI, industry, metaverse, and architecture. These fields require domestic operating systems. Support the development of complex devices and applications. Unity China revealed that game demos made on other operating systems can run stably and smoothly on the OpenHarmony system, and the cooperation with OpenHarmony will be strengthened in the future.
It can be seen that the release of OpenHarmony 3.2 Release will attract more game and application developers to invest in the OpenHarmony ecosystem and release their creativity and imagination.
In addition, from the perspective of the system platform, it fully supports the development of complex devices with screens and complex large-scale applications, which means that the basic construction of technology, capabilities, and tools is mature.
The OpenHarmony 3.2 Release version does meet this requirement, mainly from several aspects:
Smooth system, "visible" improvement. Through comprehensive optimization at the architecture level and many innovative technologies, the system fluency of OpenHarmony 3.2 Release ensures the interactive experience of complex devices with screens and complex applications.
The system functions are continuously improved. The system supports more than 800 HDI standardized device interfaces, making hardware adaptation more convenient; the Stage model has been further improved, and the new version of ArkTS API has reached more than 18,000, covering UI, communication, security, telephone, etc., with relatively complete capabilities, enough to support complex large-scale applications development.
Application performance to meet the needs of highly complex applications. Complex applications are particularly sensitive to development performance requirements. The 3.2 Release version provides the ability to develop high-performance applications and opens the basic interface to applications.
Developer experience and efficiency have been greatly improved. DevEco Studio provides a new set of development kits. The scenario-based performance tuning tool DevEco Insight provides scenario-based tuning templates based on typical performance problems, and provides developers with learning resources such as rich code samples and high-frequency third-party libraries.
Distributed capabilities create unique competitiveness. Distributed soft bus technology can realize automatic channel selection, and establish different channels (Bluetooth/P2P, etc.) according to the amount of information transmitted between devices. At the same time, it further optimizes the energy consumption of multi-device data synchronization. Notify the change of the data state first, and then perform related synchronization when the data is actually used, which reduces the energy consumption of the device and improves the application experience.
At the developer conference, the person in charge of Tencent Input Method shared the distributed technology of Tencent Sogou Input Method based on OpenHarmony, which can realize multi-terminal UI adaptation, cross-screen linkage, distributed data synchronization and other capabilities. For example, users can use mobile phone input methods to input text for systems such as smart TVs, smart refrigerators, and smart cockpits, breaking through the boundaries of devices, allowing input to flow freely, and bringing a refreshing user experience.
The maturity of a person starts from moving towards the complex real world and "social university". Fully supporting complex devices with screens and complex large-scale applications can also be seen as a sign of the maturity of an open source operating system, and it is also a sign of in-depth integration with more industries. The beginning of integration.
Just as Sun Wenlong, chairman of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, said: OpenHarmony 3.2 version brings brand-new technologies and experiences, which will bring stronger confidence to industry partners and developers.
Technology as the party, industry as the direction
OpenHarmony's open source roadmap
2020-2023, OpenHarmony 1.0-3.2, from technical concept to industry consensus, in more than two years, OpenHarmony, as the underlying operating system, supports an innovative vision of the Internet of Everything and thousands of industries, slowly unfolding.
Back to the topic at the beginning, how does China's open source go from participation to contribution, from follow-up to leadership? OpenHarmony has drawn a roadmap for reference in the fog of exploration with industry partners and developers.
Step 1: Grasp core technology opportunities.
New roads do not block old roads, and disruptive technologies can often lead an era. The traditional operating system ecology is difficult to shake. New technologies, new markets, and new demands have brought opportunities for "overtaking on a bend". The new generation of OpenHarmony operating system meets the industrial value and market demand of the era of the Internet of Everything. At present, through strengthening the core capabilities, realizing the overall ease of use and ease of use of the platform, and opening up through open source, lowering the threshold for the popularization of new technologies and reducing the repetitive work of developers, it is expected to become a new opportunity for the Chinese software industry to catch up.
Step 2: Construct a solid platform base.
Developers have concerns about open source, not only requiring the reliability, availability and stability of new technologies, but also considering that there are many open source participants, and the overall code quality needs to be guaranteed. The characteristics of OpenHarmony are: the backbone framework and community partners are jointly built in depth, rather than completely decentralized development. For example, there are currently 6 co-construction units that have invested more than 100 people in the co-construction of the code warehouse to ensure the quality of the core code. At the same time, there are a lot of individual co-builders and developers contributing code. In this way, both the basic quality of the open source system and the synergy of open source innovation are achieved, forming a strong platform capability.
The third step: north-south ecological collaborative innovation.
The ecological position of the operating system is important. It connects hardware and equipment manufacturers to the south, and connects a large number of application software developers to the north. It plays a key role in the collaborative innovation of upstream and downstream. OpenHarmony's hardware compatibility, extensive adaptation of chips and devices in advance, performance optimization, China's diverse business scenarios and scattered needs, provides OpenHarmony enabling services to help partners build competitive products better and faster.
As a basic platform, OpenHarmony brings together partners from east to west, north and south, forming a closed industrial loop, better unleashing the potential of new technologies, supporting the innovative practice of the Intelligent Internet of Everything, and blooming everywhere in China.
With the upgrading of OpenHarmony system capabilities and the completion of supporting development tools and resources, developers are supported to embrace more complex devices and applications with screens, and gain greater development space and opportunities. More and more industry chain partners will join the OpenHarmony ecosystem. Further promote the ecological prosperity and commercial landing of OpenHarmony.
In this era where every developer conference is being held and every household is holding developer salons, many developers will inevitably experience "aesthetic fatigue". In fact, what developers really care about is very pragmatic: whether the technical tools are easy to use, whether they can get support when encountering problems in the development process, and how to realize the commercial value.
What sets OpenHarmony apart is its sincerity. "Yo Yo screamed and called each other, sincerely sent out from the middle", which directly refers to the technical capabilities, product innovation, and industrial paths that developers are most concerned about. Inwardly, technology and services are consolidated; outwardly, industrial exports and scenarios are provided.
In the golden age of the intelligently connected world of all things, OpenHarmony, which insists on the road of technological innovation and iteration, is a trustworthy partner for developers.
OpenHarmony welcomes each other, and in the spring of 2023, we can hear the voices of all industries, see the blooming ecology, and form a vibrant industrial wilderness. Open source is also becoming a hotbed of innovation in China.
