OpenHarmony is now available on GitHub platform

The OpenHarmony project of OpenAtom foundation is now available on the top software and version control platform, GitHub. This open-source project development of the HarmonyOS operating system is in is a read-only mirror and won’t be used for accepting issues or pull requests.

GitHub is a Git repository hosting service, but it adds many of its own features. While Git is a command-line tool, GitHub provides a Web-based graphical interface. It also provides access control and several collaboration features, such as wikis and basic task management tools for every project.

OpenHarmony is the next-gen open-source operating system, which is supported on several platforms and works on the Internet of everything. Following its development, Huawei has officially donated the source code to the open-source foundation – OpenAtom.

OpenHarmony downloadable source code is still hosted at Gitee https://gitee.com/openharmony

OpenHarmony 3.0:

On September 30, 2021, OpenAtom Foundation launched Openharmony 3.0 project, which is based on the OpenHarmony 2.2 Beta 2 and brings substantial improvements over the past version and optimizes the operating system.

New features and functions of the standard system:

• The user program framework supports service capability (ServiceAbility, DataAbility) and thread model.
• Supports file security access, that is, the ability to convert files into URIs and resolve URIs to open files.
• Support the basic ability of device management PIN code authentication.
• Support the basic capabilities of relational databases and distributed data management.
• Support Ark JS compilation toolchain and runtime, support OpenHarmony JS UI framework application development and operation.
• Support remote binding ServiceAbility, FA cross-device migration capabilities.
• Support application notification subscription and application notification message redirection capabilities.
• Support the input method framework and support the input of basic English letters, symbols, and numbers.
• The camera application supports basic capabilities for previewing, taking pictures, and recording videos.
• Support CS basic call and GSM short message capabilities.
• Support timer capability and provide timing time zone management capability.
• Under the distributed networking between standard devices, it provides permission verification functions when applications access peer resources or capabilities across devices.

New features and functions for lightweight and small systems:

• New lightweight distributed capability enhancements are added to support starting Ability on standard systems from lightweight systems.
• Soft bus capability enhancement support, providing authentication channel transmission capability, used for device binding.
• Enhanced support for lightweight globalization capabilities, and support for 31 new languages.
• A new permission attribute field and its writing interface are added to the lightweight system, and upper-layer applications can implement related services through this field.

(Via-HuaweiCentral)