Huawei being banned by US from using US tech for who-knows-why declared it's writing its own mobile OS.
Ars Technica's pre-release review. The OS is called HarmonyOS. Basically a fork of Android. Uses the same Java byte code <-- the bad. I was expecting something like iOS's native compile and ref counted GC.
I don't think China can build a completely new OS. We need the Russians for it.
Quote : "I built a sample app with Huawei's SDK, hoping to see an "App pack." It spit out a .hap (HarmonyOS Ability Packages) file, which is apparently part of an "App Pack." Great! Now, Android .apks are just standard .zip files with a new extension, and changing the extension to .zip will let you unzip an app and preliminarily poke around in it. What happens if you try this trick with a .hap file? It unzips! And it's full of Android code. All the Android decompile tools work, too, because HarmonyOS is Android. HarmonyOS apps made in the SDK target Android API 29, aka Android 10."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-huaweis-android-killer-is-just-android/