With the development of technology, smartphones have become an indispensable tool in our lives. If we lose the assistance of mobile phones, many people's lives may fall into a mess, travel is restricted, and shopping experience will also decline significantly. Therefore, the user experience brought to users by mobile phones is crucial. The key to affecting the user experience of a mobile phone lies in the operating system of the mobile phone.
However, before the emergence of Hongmeng system, domestic mobile phones used almost all the Android system of Google . Even now, Apple 's iOS system and Google's Android system all occupy most of the "land" in the mobile operating system field. Domestic mobile phones not only have to spend money to buy services, but also have to find ways to get authorization. Especially when Huawei mobile in overseas markets failed to obtain Google GMS authorization, many core applications were unable to be installed normally, causing a very heavy blow to Huawei 's mobile phone business.
However, Huawei actually expected this. In response to Google's supply cutoff, Huawei launched the research and development of its own operating system as early as 2016. However, Google's supply cutoff of GMS has become an opportunity to successfully turn the Hongmeng system into a regular basis. Since then, the first self-developed mobile operating system in the true sense has been officially launched.
Of course, since the release of the Hongmeng system, it has also encountered a lot of criticism. Because it has a similar UI design to the Android system, many people in the industry say that Hongmeng is just a shell Android, and has no technical content. As for the domestic operating system, it is even more unworthy of its name.
Recently, the Hongmeng system has been caught in the debate about "shelling" Android. The reason is that a pollen accidentally switched the system language to English when using the Hongmeng OS 3.0 operating system. It turned out that the Hongmeng system seemed to have become an Android system in seconds. The "harmonyOS" process that was running normally suddenly became the "Android System" process. Netizens also expressed their questions: What's the situation?
In fact, if you analyze it carefully, the truth is very simple. The development of the Hongmeng system is based on AOSP. The so-called AOSP is an Android open source project. That is to say, the development of the Hongmeng system uses the open source code of Android. Although it is an Android open source project, Google does not have intellectual property rights because the technology comes from openers in various regions around the world, and Huawei even participates in it. The Android system is also developed based on AOSP. So the question is, with the same open source code, why is it okay to use Android? If Hongmeng uses it, it will cause controversy?
In addition, since its release, its strength is obvious to all. In terms of system experience, the reputation of the Hongmeng system has even surpassed the Android system, and the advantages of the Hongmeng system in ecological linkage are very obvious. For example, take Huawei's self-developed EROFS super file management system based on Hongmeng system as an example. The addition of this system further optimizes the system experience of Hongmeng system. Then Google borrowed EROFS and added it to the Android 13 system, greatly improving the shortcomings of the bloated and stuttering Android system.
Some people may say that the Hongmeng system is also a microkernel operating system after all, and the AOSP source code project cannot be built on the microkernel. In fact, the Hongmeng system has long used its own code to replace the AOSP code, so it is not an exaggeration to say that the Hongmeng system is a real domestic operating system.
Although the UI of the Hongmeng system and the Android system are very similar, there are big differences in nature. This is also the main reason why Huawei is confident in applying the Hongmeng system to terminal devices such as smart cars and smart homes.
So why does the process of the Hongmeng system change from "harmonyOS" to "Android System" after switching the system language? This is because if the Hongmeng system wants to bring the user the ultimate user experience, it needs to be compatible with the Android APP. In this way, the Android System interface must be used, so it cannot be determined that the Hongmeng system is a "shelled" Android based on the change of the process name.
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