At the conference HUAWEI Developer 2023 Chinese tech giant spoke about new developments of HUAWEI Mobile Services, operating system capabilities HarmonyOS 2.0and also introduced a new version of the EMUI 11 user interface.
CEO Huawei Technologies Consumer Business Group Richard Yu announced that the company is today launching an updated beta version of its operating system to developers – HarmonyOS 2.0… According to him, all Huawei smartphones in 2023 will support this OS. After the May ban imposed by the US government, Huawei’s ecosystem currently has 1.8 million developers and 490 million users, making it the third largest in the world. Despite US sanctions, the company managed to ship 105 million smartphones to the market in the first half of 2023 with a total revenue of $ 37.4 billion.
Huawei has opened the source code for HarmonyOS 2.0, but so far only for IoT devices with 128MB of memory (the code will be available for smartphones this December). Anyone can download the code for free today.
The company promises to make the rest of the code available within the next few months.
The Chinese company also announced a new IDE DevEco 2.0 for developers, which will allow them to create new applications. For ease of use, they will be provided with dozens of templates. In addition, Huawei has developed related frameworks and a code compiler.
The Chinese giant went on to elaborate on the new version of the EMUI 11 user interface, which will offer many new features and improvements.
Changes to user experience (UX) design
EMUI 11 offers improvements to the Always-on Display (AOD) feature, which will now give users access to many customization options.
AOD Themes
For example, you can publish new themes, customizable animated elements on the AOD screen, and also get the ability to display any image, live video, gif animations and much more.
AOD customizations
Along with the AOD improvements, EMUI 11 will offer an updated design for the standard gallery. The updated app’s Photos tab now includes support for a new gesture that allows users to easily switch between Month and Day views.
The Albums tab has a new 4: 3 format and new settings for sorting photos. The animation engine in EMUI 11 has been optimized based on proprietary human factors research. The new transition animations are expected to reduce the number of distractions in the user interface.
Pop-ups can be resized
EMUI 11 also supports a new feature called Live Icons, which adds a set of animated icons to the user interface. They can be found in the notification bar, in the default Phone app, and in other standard Huawei apps such as Huawei Notepad and Huawei Music. Among other things, the shell will offer a new synchronized vibration feature that synchronizes the vibration of the device with the sound of the ringtone.
It will be possible to minimize pop-ups
The updated interface will also get support for the function Smart multi-windowwhich will allow users to resize floating windows and hide them when not in use. All minimized windows will be displayed in the sidebar.
New AI and privacy features
EMUI 11 will bring many new and updated AI features to Huawei devices. One of them will be Multi-screen collaboration 3.0… It will allow users to simultaneously control three applications from a smartphone on their PC, receive calls on a connected PC and use the device as a document scanner. Improvements are also announced for the proprietary MeeTime video calling application and Celia voice assistant.
EMUI 11 will acquire a number of privacy and security features. For example, a new indicator icon will be introduced in the status bar that will alert users when an application is using their device’s camera, microphone, or location data. It is designed to prevent background applications from accessing the microphone and camera, so new permission requests from users will be required to determine the location, use the camera and microphone.
The Gallery app has also received privacy and security improvements, including AI support for device data processing, the ability to remove EXIF data from images, and the use of a hidden album to store sensitive photos.
Huawei has not yet announced the timing of the release of EMUI 11. It is stated that software testing has already started and the beta version of the interface will soon appear on the flagships P40 and Mate 30.
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