Year 2012. Huawei begins the development of its own operating system without suspecting (or not, we cannot take anything for granted at this point) that seven years later Donald Trump was going to complicate its existence. And it is that the president of the United States, as you already know, has vetoed any commercial relationship between North American companies and the Chinese giant. Many allude to the fact that it is a strategy to safeguard the country from the alleged "espionage" carried out by the firm through its terminals; others, however, allude to a trade boycott to slow down China's technology race. Be that as it may, yesterday was a full stop in the history of Huawei.
The operating system that has been in the oven for seven years is called Hongmeng and could come to replace Android in the new Huawei brand devices. This new operating system would be based on Android, since it is an open source base system called AOSP and can be modified to suit the company in question. Thus, for example, we have different 'Androids' depending on whether it is a Samsung, Oppo or OnePlus phone. We call this a 'personalization layer' and many manufacturers take advantage of it to introduce their own applications, tools and even advertising.
The name that has been released, and which is probably just a code name for the development phase of the system, is Hongmeng OS. Apparently Huawei could have already installed and used it in some test terminals.
Huawei will be able to continue using Google applications and the Android operating system (through the EMUI layer) thanks to an extension until August 19 of this year. One of the great challenges that the systems engineer faces when creating a new one is the support of compatible applications for it. The operating system with which the Samsung company tried its luck, called 'Tizen', only had 5,000 compatible applications after two years running, which led to a sudden disappearance. To put the user in perspective, it must be remembered that only in the Google Play Store we can find almost 4 million applications, while in the Apple App Store we can enjoy just over 2 million.
It is a big question, for now, how it would look aesthetically (we bet on lines according to its EMUI layer, very similar, on the other hand, to MIUI, Xiaomi layer), what will its real name be (we doubt very much that the unlikely remains HongMeng name) and in which terminals we will see them for the first time. There are media that speculate about the possibility that we will see it fully operational within the next Huawei Mate 30 that will arrive in our country at the end of summer.
The same is the question that hangs over the Honor terminals, the mid-range for online sale and owned by Huawei. Both brands must decide soon what their future will be and as soon as they know it we will be waiting to inform you of everything.
