Breaking: Huawei HarmonyOS 3.1 launched

At Huawei Developer Conference 2022, we thought that Huawei will leave us empty-handed but wait there’s more because the company has launched HarmonyOS 3.1 operating system.

Yes, HarmonyOS 4 is scheduled to launch next year and it possibly is arriving at HDC 2023. For the time being, Huawei has launched HarmonyOS 3.1 for your smartphones.

According to the information, HarmonyOS 3.1 early adopter version supports Harmony Development Kit and the SDK has fully upgraded ArkTS for declarative application development. It supports 10000+ ArkTS APIS for better app development.

Also, the HarmonyOS 3.1 SDK has also been upgraded, as the HarmonyOS 3 was based on OpenHarmonyOS 3.1 with API 8, while the HarmonyOS 3.1 is launched with OpenHarmony 3.2 and API version 9.

As for now, Huawei has not released any details about the features and capabilities of this upcoming HarmonyOS version but there are some exclusive details that you can now grab in hand.

HarmonyOS 3.1 roadmap is here and we could see that this software will rollout developer preview builds in November this year. Followed by Beta testing in January 2023, and public release in March 2023.

Yeah, it rings the bell for us, as we can assume that the Huawei P60 series will be ready to amaze us with a new software version such as HarmonyOS 3.1. On the other hand, HarmonyOS 4 will be promoted with the Huawei Mate 60 series.

To be mentioned, Huawei has already achieved 320 million installations on smartphones, tablets, wearables and third-party devices.

HarmonyOS is a multi-kernel operating system designed and developed by Huawei and its open-source code was later donated to Open Atom Foundation. The software continues to surprise us with new features and additions that are hard to find in other mobile software such as Android and iOS.

Currently, Huawei is seeding HarmonyOS 3 for its smartphones and other devices. But now, we’re excited to see what HarmonyOS 3.1 and we’ll keep you posted with future developments.