OpenHarmony

OpenHarmony is an open-source distributed operating system designed to enable a unified software platform across a wide range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, wearables, home devices, and other Internet of Things endpoints. It originated as a community-driven evolution of Huawei’s HarmonyOS concept and is developed and maintained by the OpenHarmony community, with participation from multiple organizations and developers worldwide.

The project emphasizes a distributed architecture intended to support cross-device experiences. This includes mechanisms for cross-device service invocation, data sharing, and continuity of user experiences across devices. OpenHarmony focuses on modularity, multi-device compatibility, security, and performance, providing a set of APIs, frameworks, and development tools that allow applications to run on various hardware platforms supported by the project.

Development is conducted through open-source collaboration platforms, with source code available on public repositories and regular releases driven by community contributions. The ecosystem comprises official and community-based components, hardware ports, and application samples, all aimed at enabling a broad range of use cases from consumer electronics to IoT devices.

OpenHarmony seeks to foster interoperability among devices from different vendors and to accelerate the adoption of distributed OS concepts in diverse environments. By offering a common runtime and development model, it aims to simplify cross-device development and enable seamless multi-device experiences across the ecosystem.