700 million devices, 2.2 million developers, a smarter Hongmeng new world

It has been 4 years since HarmonyOS was officially unveiled at the 2019 Huawei Developer Conference (HDC2019). Today, all IoT devices are still not convenient enough, so we look forward to China’s Internet of Everything world to have the ultimate technology and ultimate Experience, ultimate creativity.

So, HarmonyOS 4 is here!

On August 4, the 2023 Huawei Developer Conference (HDC.Together) grandly opened in Songshan Lake, Dongguan. HarmonyOS 4 was unveiled at the conference. The newly upgraded HarmonyOS 4 has built a new smart ecosystem with its more fun, smoother and safer features, which has brought about huge changes in the way smart terminals interact. A series of leading technologies such as the newly upgraded Hongmeng development kit and HarmonyOS Next development preview version were also unveiled, which can provide users with a new experience and help developers create innovative smart terminals and application services more efficiently.

Why "the light boat has passed the Ten Thousand Mountains"

According to Yu Chengdong, Huawei's Managing Director, Terminal BG CEO, and Smart Car Solutions BU CEO, at the conference, since the advent of HarmonyOS in 2019, it has been loved by everyone for its simple, smooth, and secure experience, and has become the fastest-growing operating system. . The popularity of the Hongmeng brand has increased from 50% in 2021 to 85% currently. The number of devices in Hongmeng Ecosystem has exceeded 700 million, and the number of developers has exceeded 2.2 million. At the same time, 3.5 million people from various fields participated in developer activities, the number of industrial users also exceeded 100,000, the number of active users of the development tool DevEco exceeded 400,000, and the daily API calls reached 59 billion times.

It can be seen from the above data that Hongmeng system already has a considerable base. Therefore, Yu Chengdong proudly said in his keynote speech: "Hongmeng Ecology has gone through a difficult four years. We have overcome many difficulties. Looking back, we can see that the boat has passed thousands of mountains."

Smart meta-services

Compared with HarmonyOS 3, HarmonyOS 4 has new upgrades, such as meta-services, smart assistant Xiaoyi, digital asset inheritance, privacy protection, etc., giving us a brand new experience.

The conference showed us the breakthrough of meta-services on HarmonyOS 4. Meta-services have the characteristics of cross-device operation, card-based experience, active services, etc., which can bring consumers a more convenient experience, and its convenience is far superior to apps and mini-programs. According to Yu Chengdong, many ecological partners have accessed the Yuan service. After Sina Finance used the Yuan service, its active users increased by 6 times. After Ximalaya used the Yuan service, its active users increased by 11 times. After Jie Parking accessed the Yuan service, its users increased by 11 times. The frequency is three times that of the app, and the number of new users of Yao Guanjia in a single month reaches tens of millions.

As a presentation method of meta-service, universal cards have received new upgrades at this conference. In addition to the coverage of previous categories, universal cards have been added to support dynamic refresh and display service dynamics in real time. For example, users do not need to open the app to query information such as music charts, nearby food, and delivery status. They can see instantly refreshed service information on cards on different terminal screens.

In addition, as more and more ecological partners join, Yuan Service has more and more universal cards. For example, news information cards allow you to browse the current hot search information directly on the card; convenience life cards can display life information that is closely related to users, such as providing sunrise and sunset times for photography enthusiasts to help them capture the best photos. Time to take the most stunning pictures; there are also cards such as travel books, which can also intuitively display flight schedules, attraction information, etc. An example of a universal card for a scenic spot called "Mengli Water Village" was shown at the conference. We saw that when tourists enter the scenic spot, the card will automatically provide an audio guide based on where the tourists go, and also introduce when the performances in the scenic spot will start. . When it's time to eat, we will also recommend nearby gourmet restaurants. According to reports, many scenic spots such as Chang'an 12 Hours, Six Dynasties Museum, and Henan Museum have been connected to the universal card of Yuan Service.

In addition to the efficient information processing method of universal cards, cross-end transfer is also an important capability of meta-services. Super Transfer Station supports more applications and scenarios, and has added practical functions such as file preview and clipboard history content query to better help users collect fragmented information. Not only mobile phones, Super Transfer Station also supports tablets and PCs, making sharing across devices very convenient. It helps users share content between different applications and devices quickly and easily. For example, friends' chat records, in-game pictures and text, and details pages on Xiaohongshu can be played into the transfer station, and then dragged out in the memo to quickly form notes. You can also easily stream games on your mobile phone to the cockpit screen. With the game controller and Huawei's surround speakers, you can enjoy an immersive experience in mobile games in the car.

Big model supports, Xiaoyi is smarter

"Today we have entered the era of large models, and Huawei's Pangu large model will help the Hongmeng ecosystem." "Through Pangu's underlying capabilities, Huawei will bring users a new AI experience of smart terminal interaction, high-end productivity efficiency, and personalized services." Yu Chengdong explain.

"87.6% of the smart cockpits equipped with HarmonyOS are completed by Xiaoyi. Xiaoyi's monthly active users on mobile phones are as high as 200 million, and Xiaoyi's average daily wake-ups on smart screens are more than 7 times," said He Gang, COO of Huawei Device BG .

One of the key points released at this conference is that the Pangu large model is connected to the Hongmeng system and the AI ​​​​large model is implemented on smartphones. Huawei's Pangu large model is a world-leading visual training model. It includes a 100-billion-level series of natural language large models and a multi-modal large model that can understand images and generate images, 3D, and videos. Xiaoyi, who has been trained on Pangu's large model, has continued to improve in three directions: intelligent interaction, productivity improvement and personalized services, becoming a smarter, more capable and more considerate intelligent assistant.

First of all, today's Xiaoyi has a stronger ability to understand information and can understand those vaguely intended voice commands in daily conversations. Users can communicate with Xiaoyi in more daily expressions according to their own speaking habits. For example, if they want to use the new panoramic weather wallpaper in HarmonyOS 4, they only need to ask Xiaoyi "How to change the wallpaper with weather effects" or "Can I change it?" "Set the mobile phone wallpaper with real-time weather", Xiaoyi can understand it. Not only that, Xiaoyi can also understand the content of the picture and process it, such as identifying the address on the poster and navigating with one click.

Xiaoyi also handled complex information perfectly. An example was demonstrated at the conference: a request was made to Xiaoyi to "find a seafood restaurant with a relatively high rating near Songshan Lake that is suitable for a party of 4 people and is affordable." Xiaoyi quickly understood. And find suitable restaurant options through Meituan data. Xiaoyi also has strong logical analysis capabilities and can intelligently create special scenarios for users. For example, for users who like running, Xiaoyi can create a morning running scene and report the weather forecast regularly every day. When the user starts running and puts on a Bluetooth headset, Xiaoyi will play the user's collection of music, which shows that Xiaoyi has certain capabilities. programming ability.

In addition, Xiaoyi not only greatly improves its understanding ability, but also has summary functions and copywriting-assisted creation functions, making content creation more effective with half the effort. Relying on multi-modal large model technology, Xiaoyi can also implement the "Picture Fun" function to personalize and stylize existing images and other secondary creation processes. Xiaoyi is also a smart assistant that understands users better. It can help users record inspiration or important events and provide search and reminder functions. Xiaoyi Suggestions has upgraded the scene combination card function, which can sense more high-frequency scenes of users and actively generate different Xiaoyi Suggestion cards.

New breakthroughs in HarmonyOS 4

At the conference, we saw a series of upgrades of new large model technologies in all aspects of Harmony OS 4.

First of all, in order to meet the personalized needs of users, Harmony OS 4 brings a very personalized design and adds a new personalized theme. Through AI cutout technology, the user's own photos can be matched with a variety of artistic backgrounds to quickly design personalized desktop background. In addition, there are functions such as panoramic weather wallpapers to easily achieve rich and diverse visual and interactive experiences.

In addition, HarmonyOS 4 has visually optimized the notification center to make the information structure clearer. The new notification center can "pin" key information. It adds a new function "live window" in the upper left corner of the screen for mobile phones and tablets. On the watch, it is in the form of a "crescent window", which can display in real time "eating out, Application statuses such as "picking up food and delivering food" avoid notifications from swiping the screen, allowing users to obtain information efficiently and intuitively. It can also directly switch between capsules and cards, giving users a complete, continuous and efficient experience.