The third major version of Huawei’s Harmony operating system was announced in October last year with the first Developer Preview coming out a few weeks later. However, development seems to have run into a bit of a hitch, so the implementation schedule had to be postponed.
Utent Weibo Changan digital king reports the news from the developer innovation contest, which was held recently: the stable version of Harmony OS 3.0 is scheduled for September this year. Version 2.0 was launched in June and by mid-September it already had an installation base of 100 million devices.
That said, we should see v3.0 pretty soon – a beta version is slated for May, though Huawei hasn’t officially confirmed this. The new version refines the user interface and improves performance, but does not make substantial changes to the graphical aspect of the operating system.
Huawei recently released ArkUI, a declarative UI framework for building HarmonyOS apps using TypeScript or JavaScript, which can be used for app development for 3.0.
ArkUI is an easy-to-use cross-platform user interface for HarmonyOS devices
Please note that these dates refer to an implementation of updates for existing devices. The Huawei Mate 50 series is still on the roadmap, possibly coming in July after losing the traditional H2 launch window from last year. Mate 50 devices should be the first to run Harmony OS 3.0.
As for existing devices that will be updated to the new version, we should have an indication when the first beta versions start to be available.
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