Zhao Ming – the CEO of Honor Devices says that many phone makers are focusing on AI this year. However, the Magic 7 series will bring the strongest AI experience.

The executive adds that last month, Apple introduced its Apple Intelligence AI technology. The iPhone maker drew attention to the goodness of AI with its new tech.

Although the company’s tech has a significant issue. Apple Intelligence can only perform well with the system apps. It often creates problems with the third-party applications. Such issues eventually ruin the device experience for consumers.

But that’s not the case with Honor AI Agent. It not only supports third-party apps but can also obtain the best cross-app connection. Thus, users will get seamless functioning while operating between the system and foreign apps with AI tech.

Honor says Apple Intelligence can’t match level with Magic 7 AI features (Image Credits: ZhaoMing/Weibo)

Magic 7 series also accompanies Qualcomm’s latest chipset which will lift the bar of AI to a whole new level. Consumers will eventually enter a more magical and shocking experience with the upcoming Magic lineup.

“Apple Intelligence can only operate its apps whereas, Honor’s AI Agent is already able to call third-party apps and perform cross-app operations. The two are incomparable in terms of technical difficulty” – says Zhao Ming.

On the flip side, Apple AI Intelligence is far away from China as it will come into the region next year whereas, Honor Magic 7 series is ready to go live this month.

Honor Magic 7 series will likely bring features like AI task management, AI image assistant, and AI car connection. Users can easily perform daily tasks, send messages, and control smart home products via voice commands for utter convenience.

Honor Magic 7 smartphone (Image Credits: MyDrivers)

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HyperOS 2.0 Enhanced Protection is the company’s new measure towards protecting its devices from risky apps. Yes! We often download such apps to our devices that appear interesting but are dangerous. They leak data to third-party servers.

Even if we try to remain alert, it’s impossible to recognize which app is safe or a risk to our device. However, Xiaomi is bringing a solution to this issue in the form of an Enhanced Protection feature. It will shield your device from all possible risks.

Under this feature, the Xiaomi App Store will test the app’s security and risk level before installing it on your device. In simple words, only those apps can access your device that is being tested by the company’s official application store.

It will automatically restrict the downloading of any such app that seems a risk to the device’s security. Thus, the feature protects users’ data from bad applications or malware found in the App Store. It also prevents viruses or other issues that install on your phone automatically due to unverified apps or services.

HyperOS 2.0 to raise security standards with ‘Enhanced Protection’ tool (Image Credits: XiaomiTime)

The feature was initially spotted by XiaomiTime. It follows a three-step review for every app before installing it on a user’s device. These processes are:

• Four automatic detections
• Professional Review
• Protection standards regarding privacy and security

When enabled, the feature will test every app before downloading and automatically prohibit any risky or buggy application. Thus, users can install apps without worrying about their device or data security.

The feature will likely debut with the HyperOS 2.0 this month. The tech giant has yet to announce an official release date for unveiling the new software. Though we may get the details on this matter soon.

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With the latest security patch, the company has fixed 6 medium-level CVEs. This time, there aren’t any critical bugs found in the device’s system. However, we recommend keeping your devices up-to-date with the newest software or security builds.

These rollouts often work as a baseline build for the major updates. On the other hand, they also protect the device from privacy exploits and harmful malware that often leads to system crashes, app freezing, abnormal functioning, and data leaks.

Apart from 6 CVEs, the company has also fixed 2 critical and 16 high-level third-party library defects. Installing the new security patch on your device will unlock an efficient and bug-free experience.

EMUI

Huawei has seemingly completed the EMUI 14.2 rollout for its eligible top-end models. Although the company hasn’t mentioned any details regarding the EMUI 14.2 expansion for other models. In this case, it may push a surprising update in the future.

HarmonyOS

The tech giant is quite busy with the HarmonyOS NEXT in China. The new OS has reached the public beta phase. It may step on the stability platform next month alongside the Mate 70 series. You can learn more about the software upgrade HERE.

October 2024 security patch hasn’t started to roll out for Huawei devices. At present, the company is busy with the September 2024 update distribution among its left-out devices. Although the company may soon begin the new patch rollout shortly.

Till then, let’s take a look at Huawei October 2024 EMUI and HarmonyOS security patch details.

Huawei October 2024 EMUI and HarmonyOS security patch details released (Image Credits: HuaweiCentral)

Medium:

• CVE-2024-47290, CVE-2024-47291, CVE-2024-47292, CVE-2024-47293, CVE-2024-47294, CVE-2024-9136
• Affected Versions: EMUI 12.0, EMUI 13.0, EMUI 14.0, HarmonyOS 2.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 4.2.

Third-Party Library

Critical:

• CVE-2024-33042, CVE-2024-33052
• Affected Versions: EMUI 12, EMUI 13, EMUI 14, HarmonyOS 2.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 4.0.

High:

• CVE-2024-40658, CVE-2024-40662, CVE-2024-40652, CVE-2024-40657, CVE-2024-40655, CVE-2024-40656, CVE-2024-33045, CVE-2024-33038, CVE-2024-33043, CVE-2024-33050, CVE-2024-34739, CVE-2024-34741, CVE-2024-23381, CVE-2024-23384, CVE-2024-2937, CVE-2024-4607
• Affected Versions: EMUI 12, EMUI 13, EMUI 14, HarmonyOS 2.0, HarmonyOS 2.1, HarmonyOS 3.0, HarmonyOS 3.1, HarmonyOS 4.0, HarmonyOS 4.2.

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Apart from translation tools, the update brings some fixes to games and the gallery section. It also improves the split-screen mode for third-party applications.

Face-to-face translation runs on AI algorithms. It translates the speech or a conversation between two people in real-time. The feature solves language barriers especially when in an international meeting, traveling abroad, and other scenarios.

The company collaborated with Google Cloud to sport AI features and new translation tools for its foldable. Honor Magic V3 users can download the MagicOS 8.0.1.173 update to experience the latest additions and fixes for games and the gallery.

Other enhancements are related to the device’s system stability and thermal experience while charging. Check the complete MagicOS 8.0.1.173 changelog below.

Honor face-to-face translation feature (Image Credits: Honor)

New Features

Face-to-face translation

• Supports translation between Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Russian in turn-based dialogue scenarios.
• Supports voice and text input, as well as translation result broadcasting. (Path: Settings > Smart Assistant > YOYO Assistant > Face-to-face translation)

Fixes

• Game: Fixed the issue where the keyboard was misaligned in split-screen mode in some games.
• Gallery: Fixed the issue of using AI to eliminate the prompt service timeout.

Improvements

• Split-screen: Improve the user experience in split-screen scenarios for some third-party and system applications.
• Charge: Optimize the thermal experience in standby charging scenarios.
• System: Improve system stability and make your phone run more stably.

Note that the new translation features are already available for the Magic V3 global variants. Although the company is now bringing them to the Chinese models. Regarding the other changes, Honor may soon roll out these enhancements for global Magic V3 users.

MagicOS 8.0.1.173 brings face-to-face translation for Honor Magic V3 (Image Credits: Honor/X)

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It’s good to see that Huawei keeps its devices up-to-date with new EMUI rollouts. Before we dig into the software, let’s check the September 2024 patch benefits.

September 2024 patch resolves around 13 privacy vulnerabilities found in the previous software build. It also fixes 20 third-party library issues that often lead to system crashes and even data leaks, ruining the overall user experience.

The latest patch also ensures a seamless performance throughout the device. Hence you should prioritize this firmware and install it as soon as it reaches your phone.

Huawei Nova 9 users are receiving the new September 2024 update with the EMUI 13.0.0.320. It carries a software package that weighs around 400MB.

Thanks to the tipster – Timal 973 for this amazing tip!

EMUI September 2024 update released for Huawei Nova 9 users (Image Credits: HCNewsroom)

The update is rolling out in batches. Users can further install the new software version manually via Settings > System & Updates > Software Updates. Make sure that you have sufficient storage space and battery backup in your device.

Up to this point, the September 2024 update has reached many other devices like Mate 50 Pro, P60 series, Nova 11 series, Nova Y91, and Nova 9 SE. Other devices like the P50 series and certain tablets, will soon receive the new security update.

If you haven’t received the update yet, then keep an eye on the update section of your device. Also, take a backup beforehand to avoid data loss.

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Weibo tipster @AdakFenglangjuxu notes that Huawei Petal Maps based on the HarmonyOS NEXT app version is open for public testing. The beta has NEXT 1.4 build.

The company has also kicked off a testing version of the regular Petal Maps app. Users with HarmonyOS NEXT eligible devices can explore the native app version. Meanwhile, the non-beta users can choose the regular build and enjoy a stable experience.

In terms of features, Huawei has launched the bus navigation tool for both the regular and native HarmonyOS Petal Maps versions. It is a smart tool that shows real-time bus navigation on the map. Although there’s a catch.

Users can’t use this feature directly on the Petal Maps app. They need to download a ‘Bus Coming’ App to experience the real-time bus viewing experience. After tapping the “View real-time bus” feature in the Petal Maps, it will directly land users on the third-party app. One can use this app without log-in factors.

Huawei Petal Maps bus navigation feature (Image Credits: ITHome)

How to download?

Petal Maps regular version: Users can download the normal Petal Maps testing build from the Member Center app. Go to the Trial Experience page and select App public testing. Follow the on-screen steps and hit the submit tab.

Petal Maps native HarmonyOS version: Users can go to the HarmonyOS NEXT AppGallery and upgrade to the latest Petal Maps beta version. Make sure to have sufficient storage space in your device to carry out the app installation.

Huawei Petal Maps based on HarmonyOS NEXT open for public testing (Image Credits: Weibo)

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The OpenHarmonyOS 5.0 version is released by OpenAtom Foundation. Developers will find major changes in the app development kit, ArkUI, and other segments. These modifications will provide clearer logic and scenario-based views.

Further details in the changelog show refinements for network stability, distributed data management, richer encodings for media, and optimized power supply. Developers can quickly develop apps using enhanced Web capabilities with upgraded tools.

Other sections in the list count communication, security, graphics, camera, event notification, encryption, hardware capabilities, and more. You can check the details below.

OpenHarmony 5.0 Changelog

Highlights:

• The application framework gets more lifecycle management capabilities and provides sub-process-related capabilities.
• ArkUI further opens up the rendering capabilities of custom nodes.
• Application package management improves application packaging efficiency and enriches the operational scenarios for end users to use applications. (For instance, creating application clones, creating desktop shortcuts, and more)
• It enhanced the distributed data management capabilities and security while ensuring reasonable data sharing.
• File management further improves Picker’s capabilities and enables reasonable control of permissions and reasonable data sharing.
• It enhances the media’s audio, video playback, and recording capabilities with the support for multiple audio, video, and image encoding formats. It now has more detailed playback control operations.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application Framework

• Supports creating JS/Native sub-processes. Developers can execute time-consuming operations in sub-processes.
• The lifecycle monitoring ability supports more lifecycles such as onNewWant.
• Supports the ability to return AbilityResult to the caller without actively destroying itself.
• The context supports Sendable object conversion for multi-threaded Context transmission.
• Supports application-level font settings.

ArkUI

• Enhanced the component customization capability with the addition of new components like a modifier, ContentModifier, and DrawModifier, which support adding new properties based on existing components, customizing component content and fully self-drawing.

The Custom nodes and Native rendering nodes are open. Custom nodes are node objects that have some basic capabilities of underlying entity nodes. These nodes can be mixed with native components through custom placeholder nodes.

Custom nodes can have the ability to calculate the layout of a single node, set basic properties, set event monitoring, and customize the drawing and rendering content. It includes three types of objects: FrameNode, RenderNode, and BuilderNode.

• BuilderNode: Provides a custom BuilderNode that can mount native components.
• FrameNode: Provides a custom FrameNode, which represents the entity node of the component tree. NodeController can mount it to NodeContainer through the FrameNode held by BuilderNode, or obtain RenderNode through FrameNode and mount it to other FrameNodes.
• RenderNode: Provides self-drawing rendering node RenderNode to support custom drawing requirements on the Native side.
• NodeController: NodeController implements operations such as creation, display, and update of custom nodes. It is responsible for mounting custom nodes on NodeContainer.

Other enhancements in the ArkUI section include the NDK capability for the third-party framework components. It covers component creation, property setting, event registration, customization capabilities, and component tree construction.

The Navigation component has more enhanced capabilities, including single-column and double-column switching effects, interruption and continuation of transition animations, and the ability to monitor the page life cycle.

The control visuals, animations, and interactions have been refreshed and added support for aging-friendly interfaces, mirrored languages, and screen reading. Menu and pop-up components support developers in defining color, shape, rounded corners, size, position, and shadow.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Application package management

• Supports access and management of application clones. Applications can access application clones through simple configuration.
• Supports home screen shortcuts. Users can dynamically add shortcuts to the home screen.
• Supports independent upgrade capabilities of system-level HSP and ArkWeb. It also supports independent updates of preset applications.
• Supports recovery mechanism after abnormal interruption of OTA upgrade. If a power outage or service crash occurs during the OTA upgrade process, the OTA process will be restored upon restart to continue installing and updating applications.
• Provides automatic cache directory cleaning capability and supports storage management to automatically clean up the cache directory when the device space is insufficient.
• Supports Native software packages and provides the capabilities of packaging, installing, and uninstalling native software packages.
• When the packaging tool packages the app, it compresses the entire app package to reduce its size on the shelf.

Distributed soft bus

• IPS provides CAPI basic interface capabilities, including serialization or deserialization, message sending and receiving processing interfaces, etc.

OpenHarmony5.0: Distributed Data Management

• RelationalStore&Preferences support access to common sandbox data.
• RDB supports opening in read-only mode.
• UDMF supports the compatibility query between UTD and MIME types.
• Migration scenario data asset synchronization optimization.
• Supports distributed data management with Class E encryption.
• The inverted index construction scenario supports an application-specified external tokenizer.
• The NDK-based CAPI supports the cross-device drag-and-drop capability of UDMF data.

A Distributed Hardware

• Provides refined ACL management: It performs refined addition, deletion, modification, and query operations on ACLs based on business devices, users, accounts, and package names.
• Quality reinforcement to improve functional stability and reliability.

Distributed DeviceProfile

• Equipment data is reconstructed hierarchically to improve the efficiency of adding, deleting, modifying, and checking data.
• Quality reinforcement, optimization of background link establishment function, and improved stability and reliability.

File Management

• Supports incremental file backup.
• Provides an interface for the backup application to obtain detailed information about the amount of backup data, allows the application to report the number of data records to be backed up (such as the number of text messages), and supports reporting of abnormal events during the backup and recovery process.
• Added support for SA access backup and recovery framework.
• Enhanced Picker capabilities: Provides the ability to select multiple files at a time in the Audio Picker; adds a Download Picker, allowing applications to save files directly to the “Download/package name level” directory, and subsequent access to the directory does not require permission to apply, complementing the download experience of applications such as browsers.
• Apps are supported to obtain access rights to public directories (Download, Desktop, Document) by applying for permissions (supported by some devices and needs to be determined by syscap). Apps cannot directly access public directories without applying for permission.
• Supports applications to select files or directories through FilePicker and obtain temporary access rights to the directory or file, and supports persistent access capabilities. Non-persistent files or directories cannot be accessed after the application exits.
• Added CreateStream, fdopenStream, and other streaming file access interfaces .
• Added new interfaces for setting and getting extended attributes.

Graphics, Images, and Windows

Graphics

• The NativeImage module based on the NDK’s C API now supports NativeWindowBuffer.
• The NDK-based C API now supports NativeVsync and multiple callbacks for a single frame.
• The NDK-based C API now supports variable frame rates.
• ColorSpaceManager supports sendable capabilities.
• The font engine supports text-shadow capabilities and underline alignment.
• The graphics drawing interface improves drawing-related capabilities.

Window

• Provides the display.getDisplayByIdSync interface for use with the multi-screen feature, allowing applications to synchronously obtain information about the screen where the Ability is located through IDs.
• Supports obtaining screen available area information.
• Support setting status bar text color according to page color in ArkUI.

Media: Audio

• Audio focus enhancement: Supports focus sessions, allowing apps to set concurrent playback policies with other apps, and allowing apps to play silently without interrupting audio playing in the background.
• Added support for more audio devices such as DP and USB headsets, and support for switching the default sound device function (earpiece and speaker).
• Added a new audio stream type for video calls to optimize the audio stream playback experience in this scenario.
• Added a unified volume component to facilitate use and reduce development complexity.
• Supports customization of the style of in-app casting components.
• Supports ringtone list query and customized ringtone settings.

Play

• The player start and seek performance are optimized to reduce latency.
• Added multiple playback protocols or formats: support DASH streaming protocol playback; support AMR, APE, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio playback.
• Added a variety of playback control capabilities: support for multi-track video playback, changing the output Surface during video playback, silent playback, precise seek, setting playback range, and subtitles.
• Supports configuration of streaming media buffer size; supports audio offload mode.
• Enhanced streaming media playback capabilities: Optimized streaming media cache strategy to reduce lag.

Recording

• Enhanced audio recording capability. It now supports MP3, WAV PCM-MULAW format audio recording.

Screen Recording

• Supports exempting the application’s own privacy window from screen recording protection, and provides a privacy confirmation window and screen recording status prompt.
• Supports excluding the specified window when recording.
• Supports configuring screen rotation and dynamically adjusting rotation parameters.
• Supports simultaneous recording of microphone and system sound.

Audio and video codec

• Added AVTranscoder transcoding interface. It supports bit rate reduction, outputs video files in video encoding AVC, audio encoding AAC, and encapsulation format MP4, and reduces the amount of data transmitted/stored.

DRM

• AVPlayer / AVCodec supports DRM information parsing of DASH protocol programs, decryption of TS-encapsulated H265 video format, and audio decryption.
• AVCodec DRM adaptation adds decryption parameter settings.

Camera

• New model capabilities have been added, including time-lapse photography, panorama, streamer shutter, large aperture video recording, and fluorescent photography.
• Added a new camera PerConfig one-click configuration mechanism to ensure consistent camera effects and reduce development complexity.
• Optimize the segmented process to improve the performance and quality of photo/video recording.
• Benchmark ArkTS API capabilities and complete related C APIs.
• Enhanced camera experience, including mirroring, zoom, anti-shake, continuous shooting, camera status notification, etc.

Picture

• EXIF reading and writing capabilities are enhanced, supporting EXIF ​​batch reading and writing, and GIF supports obtaining playback count information.
• Support HDR capabilities: HDR dual-layer encoding and decoding, and conversion between HDR and SDR.
• The codec format is enhanced to support HEIF codec and DNG decoding.
• The editing framework is based on the NDK’s C API, including the effector base class, filter base class, and custom algorithms.

Event Notification

• CEM tools now support publishing custom public events.
• Emitter adds a new generic interface that can be used to directly pass Sendable objects.
• Supports synchronous query notification enablement status.

Basic Communications

• Support third-party applications to connect to hotspots through network management.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Network Management

Network management capabilities

• Supports specifying a Wi-Fi hotspot by creating a NetConnection object to connect to it.
• An NDK-based C API that provides network management status monitoring, application-level proxy monitoring, and other capabilities.

The Network protocol stack capabilities

• Supports upgrading TCP Socket to TLS Socket to improve communication security.
• TLS Socket supports skipping certificate verification to avoid scenarios where the certificate cannot be verified under special circumstances.
• All sockets support obtaining local IP and port.
• HTTP supports configuring certificate pinning information.
• HTTP supports the brotli compression algorithm.

Power Supply

• Supports obtaining the current charging current. Third-party applications can obtain the current device current through nowCurrent.
• Supports temperature control actions in flight mode. Developers can customize temperature control strategies to control the device to enter flight mode.
• Supports power consumption control based on the WorkSource agent running a lock-assisted resource scheduling module.
• It supports automatically entering S4 sleep mode after waking up from S3 sleep mode when the battery is low, achieving ultra-long standby characteristics.
• After the system starts, it supports reading and broadcasting the presence information of the device shell/case, the battery information kernel node, whether to send a broadcast, etc., which supports developer configuration.

USB

• USB DEVICE configuration management security access control enhancement.
• The USB standard data transfer mode (interrupt transfer, bulk transfer) function is enhanced.
• Supports standard USB peripheral security management and control.

Start Recovery

• It supports Native software package packaging, installation, running, and uninstallation, and builds a Native software package development and release system, which helps to quickly build productivity software ecosystem capabilities and also helps system developers improve development efficiency.
• Provides a resettable developer anonymous device identifier ODID to replace UDID and other hardware identifiers.
• Supports running bftpd commands and debugging application sandbox data access in user mode.

Globalization

• Provides C API to support internationalization capabilities of the ICU4C standard.
• International formatting processing capabilities support screen size adaptation.
• Full support for pseudo-localization testing.
• Provides C API to support resource file management capabilities.
• String resources support translatability markers.
• Provides minority language font capabilities.

OpenHarmony 5.0: Safety

Encryption and decryption algorithm library framework

• ArkTS API provides corresponding C APIs for some commonly used encryption and decryption algorithm capabilities.
• Support SM4-GCM algorithm interface.

Certificate Management

• Provides an API for launching the certificate management interface.
• Provides an API for obtaining an application’s private certificate list.

Program access control

• Geolocation permissions support a one-time authorization option.
• Supports opening the permission management application interface of the settings page.

User IAM

• Supports password validity period checking.
• Supports recovery keys.

Account

• Supports logging out of local accounts.
• Supports specifying a short account name (used as the name of the personal folder) when creating a local account.
• Support querying local account names.
• Added new privacy account type.
• Added unlock authentication intent.
• Added new credential types: Graphic and Four-digit PIN.

OpenHarmony 5.0: ArkCompiler

The ArkTS front-end compiler

• Syntax enhancement: the compilation target is switched from es2017 to es2021, and the compilation of source code files with es2018~es2021 syntax features is supported.
• The obfuscation capability is enhanced to support exception stack restoration, file granularity non-obfuscation, HAP and HSP module file name obfuscation, and whitelist wildcard function.

ArkTS Runtime

• Supports lazy loading of modules, and synchronously loads executable files when variables are used, improving application startup performance.
• The concurrency capability is enhanced, providing a Sendable object-sharing mechanism to optimize the object cross-thread communication performance; TaskPool provides functions such as task queues, long-term tasks, and periodic tasks.
• The debugging function is enhanced to support reverse debugging, Smart Step into, and other functions.
• The tuning function is enhanced to support hiperf/profiler mixed back stack and multi-instance HeapDump functions.

ArkTS basic library

• It supports high-precision floating-point operations, provides StringDecoder character stream decoding capabilities, stream data stream processing capabilities, and supports bit vectors.

JSVM

• Provides a system JS engine that supports the high-performance running of JS and WASM.

Integrated sensor processing platform

Drag frame

• Supports rotating and dragging the window as the window rotates.
• Supports dragging between three devices.
• Supports application-defined configuration to not display quantity badges during dragging.
• Supports data receiver to customize cut and copy behaviors.

Keyboard and mouse crossing

• Control both ends to initiate activate interface calls at the same time.
• Optimize the timing issues of keyboard and mouse crossing, reduce system dependence, and eliminate timing issues between multiple processes.
• Improve traversal management performance, increase success rate, and reduce traversal delay.

Multimode input

• Provides C API to support device information query and other related capabilities.

Pan Sensor

Vibrator

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• The system can better use motor devices to trigger vibration according to different device capability levels.

Sensor

• Some asynchronous query interfaces provide synchronous version APIs.
• Provides C API to support linear acceleration and game rotation vector sensors.

Accessibility

• Magnification gesture: supports magnifying the screen content through gestures.
• Active broadcast capability: When the application is adapted for screen reading, it can support active broadcast of changing information through accessibility in some dynamically changing scenarios.
• Active focus capability: When an application is adapted to screen reading, it can request active focus on components in certain scenarios.

Resource Scheduling

Background Tasks

• Apply for long-duration task types and support applying for multiple types of long-duration tasks at the same time.
• The application applies for DATA_TRANSFER download-related long-term tasks, and supports returning download notifications to the application for progress updates.

Performance, power consumption, thermal integration control

• The system load fusion gear is determined based on information such as the current temperature, load, and whether it is in a high-load scenario. After the application registers the system load callback, it can adaptively downgrade its own business load according to the different levels of the system load fusion gear, thereby reducing the load of the entire machine.

Agent reminder

• When an application applies for a recurring calendar reminder, it supports specifying an exclusion day, on which no reminder will be given.
• When the application applies for a reminder, wantAgent supports passing parameters. When jumping to the target UIAbility after clicking the reminder, the parameters are carried.
• When the application queries for published reminders, the corresponding reminderId is returned in the query results.

Testing Framework

• Supports compatibility testing of cross-platform interfaces.

DFX

• Provides an API to determine whether the HDC debugger is connected.
• Support turning on the trace function in developer mode.
• Enable awareness of main thread timeout events.
• errorManager supports TaskPool and Worker to listen for unhandled Reject events.

Kernel

• Provide thread QoS level marking and scheduling based on user interaction relationships.

Upload and download

• request.agent.Fault refines the error types to help developers quickly locate API usage problems.
• request.agent.Config adds a new proxy member to support setting the network proxy address of the task.
• request.agent.Task.start supports restarting failed\stopped tasks, making it easier for developers to quickly recover failed tasks.
• request.agent.Task supports configuring TLS certificate pinning fingerprints using the network.json configuration file.
• request.agent.FileSpec supports specifying all file paths under the base directory of the application sandbox, making it easier for developers to manage sandbox files. It also supports uploading public files on the front end, such as gallery files and album files, to reduce the overhead caused by additional copies.

Input Method Framework

• The NDK-based C API now supports self-drawn UI components using input methods, including launching and exiting input methods, and processing text on-screen requests.
• Optimize the callback timing when pulling up the keyboard, so that the input method application can adjust the keyboard display content in time according to the input box properties.

Time Zone

• Provides system APIs for forcing NTP time to refresh and obtaining the current NTP time.
• The NDK-based C API provides the ability to obtain the time zone.

Clipboard

• The NDK-based C API supports clipboard capabilities.
• Provides a cross-device clipboard switch.
• When the app is upgraded to API 12 or later, add a read permission check to the clipboard reading interface.

Web

• The network takeover feature is enhanced to support obtaining the FrameUrl of the request and the ResourceType of the intercepted request.
• Supports the pre-screening capability of the Web scene input method.
• Supports Web Components keyboard hosting capabilities.
• Supports synchronous drawing capabilities of Web components and ArkUI native components.
• Supports setting whitelist directories that can be accessed across domains using the File protocol.
• Support applications to specify rendering subprocesses.
• Web components support an accelerometer and gyroscope.
• Web components support intelligent filling of H5 pages.
• Web components support BFCache capabilities.
• Improve the soft keyboard avoidance mechanism of Web components and support Resize and Offset modes.

Theme Framework

• Supports enabling themes through folder directories, which improves the performance of enabling themes compared to enabling through compressed packages.
• Supports the management of card resources, and the ability to add, delete, modify and query added subject cards.
• Provides characterization functions for external screen devices and supports enabling external screen themes.
• Theme enablement support does not switch the current “active” directory.

Compile and build

• The CMake version required for compiling and building dependencies has been upgraded from 3.16.5 to 3.28.2.

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Applications are one of the major segments of the smartphone. A phone holder uses various systems and third-party apps in a single day to meet their daily needs.

But do you know that most of the third-party apps present in the app store can steal your device’s data? That’s true and this scary thought might restrict many of users from installing any new application on your smartphone next time.

Thanks to HarmonyOS 4.2 – it has the App Security Center. This tool in your Huawei phone protects your data and confidential information from prying apps.

How? Let’s find out!

App Security Center is a real-time security management tool. It detects the behavior and data collection process of all such apps that aren’t recognized by Huawei AppGallery.

For instance, when you download and install an application from any other platform than AppGallery like a browser, the app security center prompt will appear on the screen. Users can follow the on-screen steps to move the app into the respective center.

Hereafter, the App Security Center will analyze the app behavior and check if the application performs any malicious or risky tasks that don’t meet the security standards.

If the app is free of such issues, users can continue to use it on their Huawei phones. Or else, the installation will be blocked. Thus, the user’s data remains safe at all costs. The tool keeps your sensitive personal info under wraps so that you can enjoy a safer and more efficient app experience.

How to access HarmonyOS 4.2 App Security Center?

Users can make their way to the Settings app. Tap on the System & Updates section and click on the App Guard option. Turn on the Enhanced Protection for apps’ security inspection.

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Weibo tipster @FixedFocus says the HarmonyOS NEXT could bring a new “multi-app unified code scanning” feature. This tool smartly recognizes the code and reaches the code-related application automatically. The entire procedure requires one step.

Just open the camera of your phone and scan the code directly. The benefit is users won’t require a specific code scanner or an app to scan the code. It also eliminates the need to manually find the code-related app, enable the camera, and scan the code.

Being a multi-app unified code scanning feature, it may support all types of codes. As soon as users will scan the code via their main camera app, the software will lead them to the corresponding app. For instance, payment, connectivity, and more.

A few netizens speculated that the feature could even be compatible with third-party apps. Thus, this could be the most convenient and faster code scanning service.

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Huawei introduced a Smart Pay feature years ago. The tool identifies the payment code and automatically leads users to the payment app to complete the transaction.

The new multi-app code scanning feature seems to be available in the HarmonyOS NEXT beta version. It might have more benefits that are currently unknown. Although we could find this feature with the stable HarmonyOS NEXT in the coming days.

As per some details, the HarmonyOS NEXT stable is expected to launch by the end of this month. However, a few tipsters believe that the company will bring the official software by mid-October. To get clear details, we have to wait for a few more days. Stay tuned.

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Zhu Yonggang – the President of Huawei Mobile Cloud says that the native HarmonyOS NEXT will bring innovative and a brand-new experience to users’ doorsteps.

The new HarmonyOS is built on the latest system architecture and runs on native intelligence, distributed soft bus, and Star Shield security. All these components ensure an impressive visual as well as faster, smoother, and safer device performance.

HarmonyOS NEXT abandons all traditional foreign elements. It has the first microkernel which is 3 times more efficient than Linux. This kernel is highly secure and has qualified for various industry-higher-level certifications.

Another key factor of the new self-developed OS is native intelligence. The company has reformed AI-centered intelligence to obtain the best and the most comprehensive intelligence for system apps. A good example of this component is Celia.

Celia Assistant

Celia is upgraded to the next level. It is full of interesting features and smart services. It equips the large Pangu AI model to manage third-party apps and connects them to the HarmonyOS native app ecosystem. Huawei has also readied a new and smarter virtual assistant based on the high-level interaction of large models.

This assistant can think, plan, perform arts, and achieve more natural interaction with users. It offers an easy understanding so that users can enjoy asking questions, taking help in notes, document intelligence, and dialogue recognition on screen more conveniently.

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Multi-device collaboration is easier

Zhu says the HarmonyOS NEXT offers a seamless service flow and sharing experience. It also supports app continuation. Just bring two devices close and click the pop-up icon to seamlessly continue the task of one device on another. These devices could be phones, tablets, notebooks, or even smart cars.

Amap, DingTalk, and WPS are the best examples of app continuation at present. They even support features like a cross-device copy-and-paste tool for the gallery.

The President further adds that HarmonyOS NEXT is the most powerful OS in terms of security and privacy to date – thanks to the new Star Shield Security architecture. It manages kernel security, system protection, and full-process purity.

According to the  Huawei official, HarmonyOS NEXT works on ‘one system, one ecosystem’. This is why, it aims to connect multiple devices and situations under the interaction umbrella.

The company invests around 6 billion yuan every year to boost innovation in its HarmonyOS ecosystem. After the HarmonyOS NEXT beta launch, the company kicked off over 6 versions. It also received 1 million+ feedback and suggestions.

Perhaps the stable HarmonyOS NEXT version would be an extremely better software system for Huawei device owners.

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