{"id":1707,"date":"2021-05-26T10:52:35","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2021-06-03T17:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T09:30:40","slug":"huaweis-harmonyos-fake-it-till-you-make-it-meets-os-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/huaweis-harmonyos-fake-it-till-you-make-it-meets-os-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Huawei\u2019s HarmonyOS: \u201cFake it till you make it\u201d meets OS development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blistering review of &#8220;HarmonyOS&#8221; &#8211; Huawei&#8217;s touted answer to Google&#8217;s Android. Turns out it&#8217;s actually really Android &#8211; at least that&#8217;s what the reviewer had access to after an <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/02\/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android\/\">onerous application process<\/a> which includes a two-day background check.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/02\/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/huawei-harmonyos-android-imposter-760x380-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No discernible difference between Huawei&#8217;s &#8220;all-new&#8221; OS and Android.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p>And he&#8217;s not kidding about the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.harmonyos.com\/en\/home\/\">obfuscated language<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.harmonyos.com\/en\/home\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture-1536x864.png 1536w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Capture.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/02\/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android\/\">Huawei\u2019s HarmonyOS: \u201cFake it till you make it\u201d meets OS development<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update (2021-06-03):  Huawei <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2021\/06\/huaweis-harmonyos-will-rollout-to-100-android-models-over-the-next-year\/\">officially launches HarmonyOS<\/a>. In summary: HarmonyOS on IoT and smartwatch is based on Huawei&#8217;s LiteOS. HarmonyOS for phones and tablets is still based on Android.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.huawei.com\/consumer\/en\/doc\/start\/ibca-0000001062388135\">onerous sign-up process<\/a> remains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.huawei.com\/consumer\/en\/doc\/start\/ibca-0000001062388135\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1599\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2-1024x432.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1717\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2-1024x432.png 1024w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2-300x127.png 300w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2-768x324.png 768w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2-1536x648.png 1536w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2-1200x507.png 1200w, https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2.png 1599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1599px) 100vw, 1599px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blistering review of &#8220;HarmonyOS&#8221; &#8211; Huawei&#8217;s touted answer to Google&#8217;s Android. Turns out it&#8217;s actually really Android &#8211; at least that&#8217;s what the reviewer had access to after an onerous application process which includes a two-day background check. No discernible difference between Huawei&#8217;s &#8220;all-new&#8221; OS and Android. And he&#8217;s not kidding about the obfuscated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}