On April 19, the Open Atom Open Source Foundation OpenHarmony Developer Conference 2023 (hereinafter referred to as the "Conference") was successfully held with the theme of "open source is the right time for a win-win new future".
The conference is guided by the Open Atom Open Source Foundation and hosted by the Working Committee of the OpenHarmony Project Group. Bo terminal, Austrian thinking and other units cooperate and support. At the conference site, leaders and experts from the Open Atom Open Source Foundation and OpenAtom OpenHarmony (hereinafter referred to as "OpenHarmony") project group, as well as co-construction units, industry partners and community developers gathered together to witness the release of OpenHarmony 3.2 Release, Interpreted the technical features of the new version, and shared the achievements of partners in terms of OpenHarmony-based development practices, community ecological progress, and industry releases and solutions.
Sun Wenlong, chairman of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, said in his opening speech : Since OpenHarmony has been open source for more than two years, the Open Atom Open Source Foundation has organized all parties to jointly build the project and provide a better development platform for the OpenHarmony project. made rapid progress. With the painstaking research and development of the majority of developers, the version of the OpenHarmony system has been iteratively updated, and its capabilities have been continuously improved. Today's conference will release and interpret the OpenHarmony 3.2 version for the first time. This version brings new technologies and experiences, and I believe it will bring stronger confidence to industry partners and developers!
Ni Guangnan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, mentioned in his speech : Open source is the core driving force of innovation and plays a vital role in the operating system system. OpenHarmony is an important milestone in China's open source development. Since the open source, the ecological community has continued to develop and its influence has continued to rise. In the future, I hope that the state will provide more policy guidance, and that all sectors of society and more partners will join in. I hope that universities and research institutes will do a good job in personnel training, jointly promote the ecological prosperity of OpenHarmony, and create a solid digital foundation for thousands of industries.
Chen Haibo, chairman of the Technical Steering Committee of the OpenHarmony project group, said in his speech : OpenHarmony has been born for the intelligent connection of all things since its birth. The three architectural features of "intelligent collaboration" and "simplified development and consistent experience" build a distributed and full-scenario collaborative open source operating system base and ecosystem. I hope that everyone will jointly build a collaborative platform for production, learning, research, and use around OpenHarmony, and promote the development and prosperity of the technology, business, and talent ecology of the smart terminal operating system.
Bringing together 5100+ co-builders, the ecological community is developing rapidly, and the OpenHarmony project group is awarded the donor
OpenHarmony has been open source for more than two years. With the joint efforts of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation and various forces, the ecology has continued to prosper and develop. Hou Peixin, chairman of the OpenHarmony project group working committee, introduced in his speech that as of now, the OpenHarmony community has 51 co-constructors, more than 5,100 co-builders, and the cumulative code volume has exceeded 100 million lines. More than 260 software and hardware products have passed the compatibility test, covering education, transportation, finance, home furnishing, security and other industries.
The development of the OpenHarmony community ecology is inseparable from every donor who participates and actively contributes. For this reason, the OpenHarmony project group awarded 30 donation units and individual donors. Xin Xiaohua, deputy secretary-general of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, delivered a speech and said : Award donors and thank them for their contributions to the construction of an open source ecosystem.
OpenHarmony 3.2 Release is released, comprehensively improving the experience of complex devices with screens
After 5 iterations of Beta versions, OpenHarmony 3.2 Release was officially released. The system capabilities of this version have been further improved, and the experience of complex devices with screens has been comprehensively improved. Ren Gelin, Chairman of the OpenHarmony Project Management Committee, gave an in-depth interpretation of the technical features of the new version from five aspects: system smoothness, system performance, application performance, distributed capabilities, and development efficiency.
In terms of system fluency, OpenHarmony 3.2 Release has a "visible" improvement. This is mainly due to the comprehensive optimization at the architecture level and the introduction of many innovative technologies, including ArkUI minimal update technology, parallelized extremely fast startup architecture, RenderService unified rendering architecture, high-performance ArkTS engine, basic library performance optimization, etc., to achieve smooth and natural interaction Smooth, rich dynamic effects, consistent overall.
The OpenHarmony 3.2 Release system is smooth enough to support the development of complex devices with screens in various industries. Fan Hongguang, deputy general manager of Beijing Wanlihong Technology Co., Ltd., shared the implementation cases of their OpenHarmony-based tablet PC and a variety of commercial rich devices with screens, which made the guests feel the great potential of OpenHarmony in thousands of industries.
In terms of system functions, the new version is also constantly improved. Among them, HDF supports more than 800 HDI standardized device interfaces, making hardware adaptation more convenient; the Stage model is further improved, and the OpenHarmony application operation rules and background operation model are introduced from the system perspective; the distributed system integrity protection, isolation and access control The basic platform for security and privacy protection has also been greatly improved, making privacy and security more secure; at the same time, in terms of supporting application development, the new version API 9 has 18000+ ArkTS APIs, which is enough to support the development of complex and large applications.
Wu Haixin, member of the front-end channel of JD Retail and the person in charge of Web expertise, shared JD's practice and development plan of application development based on OpenHarmony. He said that by trying OpenHarmony to componentize multiple projects, the collaborative development efficiency of large-scale APPs has been greatly improved, and the overall project compilation The time is reduced by more than 70%. At the same time, the JD MCube dynamic cross-terminal solution developed by JD.com has been adapted to OpenHarmony. In the future, JD.com will continue to carry out large-scale APP engineering transformation based on OpenHarmony to create JD.com's systematic technical architecture.
In addition, in terms of support for extremely high-performance applications, the OpenHarmony 3.2 Release system is open enough to support the development of extremely high-performance applications by providing NAPI and hybrid development capabilities, rich native APIs, TaskPool parallel development framework, and DevEco Insight real-time performance analysis tool frameworks and applications. Cocos has completed the OpenHarmony adaptation of the game open source engine Cocos 2dx, and the game application developed based on the Cocos-2dx engine has been able to run smoothly.
Zuo Ruiwen, Vice President of Unity China Technology, shared the development progress of the Unity China local engine project and the progress in supporting open source systems. Zuo Ruiwen said that the Unity China local engine will be launched this year. The local engine improves the rendering performance and quality, etc., and can deeply support mobile devices. At the same time, the engine has been able to support the OpenHarmony system. At the meeting, Zuo Ruiwen showed that the demo of the project has been able to run stably and smoothly on the OpenHarmony system, and the rendering effect and frame rate are comparable to those of traditional operating systems. He also said that in the future, Unity China will fully support OpenHarmony and bring more new technologies to developers.
At the level of distributed technology, the new version supports the automatic selection of the transmission channel of the distributed soft bus, and further optimizes and improves the distributed screen capability, distributed data technology, and multi-terminal deployment capability for one development.
Gu Haibo, head of the open platform of Tencent Input Method Department, shared on the spot the development practice and implementation cases of Tencent Sogou Input Method based on OpenHarmony distributed technology. He said that with the development of OpenHarmony distributed technology, Sogou Input Method can realize multi-terminal UI adaptation , Cross-screen linkage, free flow, computing power collaboration, distributed data synchronization, multi-form and multi-capability input methods, etc., the new user experience will be refreshing.
The OpenHarmony 3.2 Release version has also greatly improved development efficiency. DevEco Studio provides a new set of development kits. The efficient compilation and construction tool Hvigor supports fine-grained parallel compilation and task-level incremental compilation; the scenario-based performance tuning tool DevEco Insight based on typical performance Scenario-based tuning templates are provided for problems; runtime function hot-reloading technology saves developers from waiting time, and code modifications appear immediately; visual development and debugging capabilities have also been further improved. At the same time, the developer information makes it easier for developers to get started by optimizing the document structure and content logic. In addition, it also provides developers with rich code samples and high-frequency third-party libraries and other learning resources. The OpenHarmony application development system has basically been completely built.
In order to encourage developers to develop innovative spirit and carry out innovative development of applications and devices based on OpenHarmony 3.2 version, the conference also announced the official launch of the Open Atom Open Source Competition OpenHarmony Innovation Competition, which has application innovation competitions and various industry competitions. Developers are welcome Sign up.
Co-build the OpenHarmony ecology and build a digital base that enables thousands of industries
With the upgrade of OpenHarmony system capabilities and the completion of supporting development tools and resources, more and more industry chain partners are joining the OpenHarmony ecosystem to jointly promote the prosperity of the OpenHarmony ecosystem and commercial implementation.
Liu Xiaojian, vice president of the software department of Huawei Device BG, said in his speech that more than 130 partners have joined the OpenHarmony ecosystem, and Huawei has signed an OpenHarmony ecosystem enablement agreement with 30 of them. The four aspects of R&D tools and technical support empower partners to help them quickly create high-quality products and solutions. At the same time, OpenHarmony is also actively promoting the standards and specifications of various industries, making OpenHarmony the industry's first choice.
In terms of talent training, OpenHarmony actively participates in the joint construction of talents in colleges and universities. In the past three years, it has cooperated with 208 colleges and universities, and the industry-university cooperation projects have covered more than 100 colleges and universities, contributing to the cultivation of talents. In terms of industrial policy, Shenzhen, Fuzhou and other cities took the lead in introducing relevant policies to support the ecological innovation and development of OpenHarmony.
The release of OpenHarmony 3.2 Release shows that OpenHarmony technology is maturing, development capabilities continue to improve, ecological development has entered the fast lane, and OpenHarmony is embarking on a new journey. We look forward to more developers and partners joining the OpenHarmony ecosystem to jointly build a digital base for the Internet of Everything, and to drive ecological prosperity with root technology innovation. A picture of innovation in thousands of industries is slowly unfolding.