# HarmonyOS 5

> HarmonyOS 5 (also known as HarmonyOS NEXT) developed by Huawei is a proprietary distributed operating system that succeeded the similarly named HarmonyOS, with the main difference that the “NEXT” operating system supports only HarmonyOS native apps. Unlike Android-based HarmonyOS versions 1 to 4 (2019–2024) and the global EMUI operating system, the Next version (first launched […]

**HarmonyOS 5** (also known as **HarmonyOS NEXT**) developed by Huawei is a proprietary distributed operating system that succeeded the similarly named HarmonyOS, with the main difference that the “NEXT” operating system supports only HarmonyOS native apps. Unlike Android-based HarmonyOS versions 1 to 4 (2019–2024) and the global EMUI operating system, the Next version (first launched on the Pura X) does not include the Android AOSP core and is incompatible with Android applications.

HarmonyOS NEXT both discards the common Unix-like Linux kernel and replaces the previous multikernel system with its own bespoke HarmonyOS microkernel. The rich execution environment (REE) version of the HarmonyOS microkernel is placed at its core, with a single framework as kernel mode. The OpenHarmony-based operating system shares lineage with the lightweight LiteOS real-time operating system for resource-constrained devices like smart wearables and IoT products.

## History

On August 4, 2023, at Huawei Developers Conference 2023 (HDC), Huawei officially announced HarmonyOS NEXT, the next version of HarmonyOS, which supports only native APP apps via

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*Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_5)*

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