Huawei’s Alternative OS to Android, HongMeng, Could Roll out as Early as this Fall

May. 22, 2019

Under mounting pressure from the US government, andfacing restrictionsfromvariousUS-basedtech giants, it’s only logical that Huawei has been working on a contingency plan for a situation such as the one the company finds itself in now. To that end, the company had announced that it’s working on its own operating system, which,reports suggest is going to be named HongMeng.

Currently, it’s not known if Huawei is using a fork of AOSP for its operating system, or if the company has built an OS from scratch and implemented the Android Runtime to let Android apps work on it.

However, the exact details of Huawei’s mysterious operating system are anyone’s guess, but it looks like taking a fork off of AOSP and building its OS around that would be the easier and more logical course of action for the company.