What system is Huawei Hongmeng based on? is Hongmeng the same as Android? what's the difference?

What system is Huawei Hongmeng based on?

The 2019 Huawei developer Conference was held from August 9 to August 11. Yu Chengdong, Managing Director of Huawei Consumer Business CEO and Huawei Technology Co., Ltd., delivered a speech entitled "New experience and New Ecology in the full scene era", officially announced the release of its own operating system Hongmeng, and announced that Hongmeng OS is open source.

At the same time, at the meeting, Yu Chengdong announced that Huawei Hongmeng will be compatible with Linux, Unix and Android.

Yu Chengdong also released the Hongmeng OS architecture map. Hongmeng OS is currently used in watch applications, large screen applications, car applications and PC applications. The program framework is a multi-user program framework, and the basic services include multi-RunTime, general system services, lot device proprietary services, distributed data management, virtual peripherals, UI& graphics and distributed soft bus, and the kernel is Linux kernel, Hongmeng micro kernel and LiteOS.

According to reports, Hongmeng OS, as a product of Huawei welcoming the era of full-scene experience, will give full play to its lightweight, compact and powerful advantages, and will be the first to be applied to smart terminals such as smartwatches, smart screens, vehicle devices, and smart speakers, focusing on building a cross-terminal integration and sharing ecology, reshaping a safe and reliable operating environment, and creating a new experience of intelligent life in the full scene for consumers.

Hongmeng OS is the first distributed architecture used in terminal OS to achieve seamless collaborative experience across terminals; Hongmeng OS solves the problem of insufficient performance of the existing system by using two major technologies: a definite delay engine and high-performance IPC; and Hongmeng OS adopts a brand-new micro-kernel design with stronger security features and low latency.

In addition, Hongmeng OS relies on multi-terminal development IDE, multi-language unified compilation, distributed architecture Kit provides screen layout controls and interactive automatic adaptation, support control drag and drop, preview-oriented visual programming, so that developers can efficiently build multi-terminal automatic running App based on the same project, achieve real one-time development, multi-end deployment, and achieve a shared ecology across devices.