Huawei’s bad weekend is turning worse as the company’s American suppliers are all falling in line with a US government edict banning them from doing business with the company. Huawei has reportedly been developing in-house alternatives to Android and Windows , specifically to try and address a situation such as the present one. Huawei has developed its own operating system under the name Hongmeng, that was in active development since 2012.
Google’s abrupt rescinding of Huawei’s Android license and halting its access to Google Play Services and the Play Store, effectively dumps it out of the Android smartphone market and forcing the Chinese company to develop its own version atop the barebone open-source edition of Android.
The details of Huawei’s Hongmeng mobile Operating System is still a mystery to many except the fact that they have been using this operating system in their mobile phones potentially hidden behind the curtain. According to Huawei Central, there is no confirmation whether Hongmeng will be the original name of the OS or it’s only a codename but did confirm the existence of the operating system related to this word. This will mostly likely change to suit their international customers in the near future.
Developing mobile Operating systems that don’t have Google’s license to its services is not a new thing. Companies like Amazon currently run the open source version of Google on their Kindle devices. Samsung has its own in built Operating system known as Tizen OS which saw a quick death in the mobile industry but is now used in its smartwatches and smartTVs.
The effort by the US government to sideline Huawei has been going for a long time, and the company was last year unceremoniously rebuffed in its effort to enter the US phone market. The current escalation is part of an increasingly hostile trade dispute between the Trump administration and the Chinese government, with the former trying to force a renegotiation of the trading relationship between the two.
