Huawei OpenHarmony 3.2 Beta 1 released, check what’s new 

Surprisingly, Huawei took one step ahead with its Open source HarmonyOS software. The Huawei OpenHarmony 3.2 Beta 1 version has been now officially released. This Beta version has a lot of highlights with basic enhancements.

In addition, Huawei OpenHarmony 3.2 Beta 1 achieved the following capabilities

Enhanced basic capabilities of lightweight systems

• The lightweight LiteOS system and Linux system IPC are unified, and the inter-process communication capabilities are built and improved, including distributed inter-process communication, providing local and distributed inter-process communication capabilities for distributed services and apps.

Enhancement of basic capabilities of standard systems

• Added support for compiling and building for Arm 64-bit system versions.
• Graphics support secure screenshots and secure screen recording; support for embedding display capabilities in other application interfaces.
• The window supports the ability to quickly switch the desktop and restore the application window, wake the screen from the window, keep the screen always on / adjust the screen brightness of the window, and secure the layer.
• The Ark VM supports multi-instance debugging, as well as conditional breakpoints and watch expression capabilities.
• Multi-mode input supports remote control, mouse, keyboard input device hot-plug monitoring capability.
• Securely supports OpenHarmony’s cross-device same-account mutual trust authentication capability.

Enhanced distributed capabilities of standard systems

• System service management supports group verification mechanism capability.

Standard System Application Framework Capability Enhancement

• ArkUI supports the AbilityComponent component to embed the application interface (Ability) as a control in other applications to display; enhance the ability of column and sidebar components, and support the ability to automatically hide by dragging and dropping.
• Package management supports the installation, uninstallation, and query of sandbox applications, and the unpacking tool supports Stage model capabilities.
• Meta-capability support Stage model supports Worker mechanism, and DFX capabilities such as ANR and application main thread stuck detection are added.

Enhanced application capabilities of standard systems

• The gallery supports basic dynamic effects, supports image editing and saving capabilities, and provides OEM custom development capabilities

The OpenHarmony 3.2 Beta 1 most notable support is for collecting and structure for the Arm 64-bit system version. Moreover, it supports secure screenshots and recording, and also sustains embedding display capabilities in other Huawei apps.

Moreover, the OpenHarmony 3.2 Beta 1 performs overall achievement for the system. Also, it enhances the basic capabilities of the system application.

(Source – Gitee)