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Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

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Re: Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

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Post by peoplefromibiza »

methuselah_in wrote: post #11

Also before they have something that's code was readable and people can see what the hell backdoors they have put. Now it's home run for surveillance

exactly how we can read the MacOS, Windows and all the Google apps code that are bundled with virtually every Android phone, right?

Re: Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

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Post by 082349872349872 »

0xCAP wrote: post #4

Very interesting wikipedia info: Written in: C, C++, JavaScript, ArkTS, Cangjie,[1] Rust, Assembly language and others

https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/cn/cangjie/ (many alternative natural languages available in the dropdown; none of the ones I tried currently map) Looks algolish.

EDIT: according to https://blog.csdn.net/qiushi_1990/article/details/140528431 from 19.07.2024 those are the languages supported for writing apps, not necessarily the implementation language(s) for the μk?

> - 多语言开发支持 支持多种语言开发 如ArkTS和C/C++ 进一步提升了应用性能。

EDIT2: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/鸿蒙星河版 lists C,C++,Java

Re: Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

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Post by wiseowise »

peoplefromibiza wrote: post #12
methuselah_in wrote: post #11

Also before they have something that's code was readable and people can see what the hell backdoors they have put. Now it's home run for surveillance

exactly how we can read the MacOS, Windows and all the Google apps code that are bundled with virtually every Android phone, right?

Exactly how we can read source of Linux distros, GrapheneOS and multitude of other security focused Android forks, right.

Re: Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

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Post by jajko »

methuselah_in wrote: post #11

Also before they have something that's code was readable and people can see what the hell backdoors they have put. Now it's home run for surveillance

I'd say that if you were worried before that on Chinese phones running Android there is something malicious but having some open source variant somewhere was protecting you somehow... you weren't paying much attention in this space for last decade+

Re: Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

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Post by csomar »

> Huawei did try to export the last version of the OS – and even offered assistance to developers who coded for the platform and targeted offshore markets – without success.

I wonder if they really tried or if they just suck too much. I thought about getting invested into the eco-system. The technical details of NEXT are quite interesting; however, the on-boarding is literal garbage. I still, to this day, can't sign up for a Huawei ID and I am currently located in Asia.

Re: Huawei makes divorce from Android official with HarmonyOS NEXT launch

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Post by Throw83489i7 »

DeathArrow wrote: post #3

>Unlike previous iterations of HarmonyOS, HarmonyOS NEXT no longer supports Android apps. That's kind of big, HarmonyOS would not be just another Android flavor anymore. > we're sorry to report that Huawei told us it currently has no plans to offer Harmony OS NEXT outside of China That's to be expected. If you live outside of China and don't know Mandarin, the apps are not usable.

> If you live outside of China and don't know Mandarin

Not just that, China has super apps that integrate everything from payments, food delivery, taxi, social media... To single application. Integrating this app directly into OS as a launcher (or shell) kind of makes sense.

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