https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3241371/chinese-big-tech-firms-jdcom-netease-and-meituan-rush-hire-harmonyos-based-app-developers-huawei
More than 700 million devices currently run on HarmonyOS, with more than 2.2 million third-party developers creating apps for the platform, according to Huawei.
Moments like this I wish I had gone with Huawei instead of HONOR. I made the choice initially because HONOR is a state owned company, and the thought of potential SWRC or something like that being practiced seemed cool. But on the other hand I really want to promote HarmonyOS.
Wouldnt it make more sense to keep Android App Compatibility? I dont really see any good reson to not still support apks.
I mean, they are searching for almost full disassociation from android at this point, so I don't see why they would seek that. Pretty sure once they fully port the biggest apps used by chinese netizens (微信，微博，小红书, etc.) people won't care about apks.
With something like the Huawei Mate 60 Pro, you can run sandboxed Play Store apps using their GBox store. They also have their own app store, App Gallery (I think that's the name) which have quite a number of apps already.
There is another Play Store sandbox app store too, I think it works well enough from what I read.
As I recall it's forked from Android originally, but they've diverged quite a bit at this point.
It is because it isolates apps and stops apps from using permissions it isnt allowed to use. In windows mac and linux programs just have access to all the user has access to which is very insecure. + on phones programs are most of the time installed by an appstore, so no installing viruses by beeing a idiot.
The permission system on Android (at least any version of Android I've seen) is far from exhaustive. On Linux, FreeBSD, etc., you can set fine-grained restrictions (including network access) if you know what you're doing
Thats a big if. But on linux you cant by default on most distros isolate programs like you can on android.
if "by default" you mean without installing any additional software, no (unless you're willing to configure the firewall), but last time I checked you can't restrict network access on most Android devices by default either
In a user frendly manner would be a better wording. But the bigger thing is the sandboxing android does. That doesnt exist on desktop OSs.
I have a device I could run the dev version of HarmonyOS on, I was thinking about how it would be nice to develop for it.
I won't be able to though because I can't code :/
You can learn if you can set aside some time to do it. It's also not a bad thing to learn how to code if you really want to do it.