Most of the time, I write about iOS, Swift and Apple’s ecosystem.
This time, I took a look beyond the Apple world and explored a platform that is particularly interesting from a mobile developer’s perspective: Huawei’s HarmonyOS.
With HarmonyOS NEXT, Huawei is building its own native platform, independent of Android, with its own development stack based on ArkTS, ArkUI and DevEco Studio. Coming from iOS, quite a few concepts feel surprisingly familiar. ArkUI follows a declarative UI approach similar to SwiftUI, and Huawei’s broader strategy strongly focuses on connecting devices, applications and services across an ecosystem.
But HarmonyOS is about much more than smartphones. The ecosystem spans tablets, PCs and wearables and extends into the car with HarmonySpace, Huawei’s smart cockpit platform, and HiCar, its smartphone-to-car integration. That makes the platform especially interesting when looking at the Chinese market and the automotive industry.
In my new article for the inovex blog, I take a closer look at the HarmonyOS ecosystem, how HarmonyOS NEXT differs from Android, what developing apps for the platform looks like, and why Huawei’s approach could become relevant for European companies and automotive OEMs.
Read the full article on the inovex blog:
👉 Huawei HarmonyOS: An Ecosystem Beyond the Smartphone