Huawei Developer Day 2021 covered its achievements, ecosystem, HarmonyOS, and Petal Nearby

Huawei recently held Developer Day 2021 Philippines, announces global and local feats, updates in Huawei Ecosystem, HarmonyOS, and Petal Nearby.

Speakers in the event

Highlights of the Huawei Developer Day Philippines 2021!

The tech giant reaffirmed its commitment to allowing Filipinos to live a seamless AI life backed by an intelligently connected ecosystem. The company also revealed its aggressive plan for developing strategic collaborations with key industry participants, which has resulted in the availability of 96 percent of top local apps in its own AppGallery.

From banking and e-commerce to lifestyle and entertainment, The Chinese tech firm has a broad list of partners. Mobile e-wallet GCash, telehealth platform KonsultaMD, and online radio and entertainment station WishFM are among the primary partners represented at the HDD.

We are grateful for the trust and confidence our partners' vest in us. As Huawei aggressively expands its mobile services and product portfolio, it is fitting that we partner with top brands and companies here in the Philippines. Through these strategic partnerships, we get to hyper-localize our efforts in catering to the needs of our local customers. We are also glad that through our partnership, Filipino enterprises get to reach their intended audience and customers better in the highly digital new normal. We, together with our partners, are building and championing a more intelligent and interconnected world that makes seamless AI life possible, shares George Li, country manager of Huawei Philippines - Consumer Business Group.

The Department of Information and Communications (DICT) also reaffirmed its longstanding partnership with HUAWEI during the event, emphasizing the latter's help in guaranteeing the continuing development of the Department's programs and projects. After collaborating on a number of projects in 2018, The tech giant and DICT are now working together on the Philippine Startup Challenge (PSC), which is a national startup competition that challenges participants to come up with ICT solutions to real-life problems in the Philippines.

The company also revealed information about its app development funding initiatives around the world. They invested USD 1 million in an honor awards program that celebrates app innovation in five regions: Asia Pacific, Europe, Los Angeles, the Middle East, and China. AppGallery's innovative apps compete for prizes in a variety of categories, including gaming, fintech, and social effect. This business aims to drive app industry innovation in order to meet the changing needs of highly digital customers.

The event has also featured key updates for HarmonyOS and Petal Nearby. The Chinese firm has mentioned a tagline of "One as all, All as One". Whereby HarmonyOS is an integral part of the ecosystem roadmap of the company. Now more products are running the newest OS contender and will be given the benefits to seamlessly connect with each other.

DecoupledOS and hardware, sharing capabilities amongst devices, smooth and low latency operation, and the DevEco Studio are the four primary breakthroughs for HarmonyOS 2. It can now be deployed to numerous devices with different form factors and storage capabilities all because of its decoupled and modularized technologies in distributed OS architecture. Previously isolated functions like display, camera, speaker, microphone, communications, sensor, and computer can now be effortlessly synergized across various devices using the same technology.

The new OS also addresses underperformance issues with a Deterministic Latency Engine, that lets the system have its accurate resource scheduling and real-time app prioritizing. Now it makes the response latency down by 25.7 percent and latency fluctuation by 55.6 percent.

The event also showcased DevEco Studio, which allows ICT professionals to develop tagged widgets and adaptive UI layouts. HarmonyOS makes its unified output compatible with a variety of peripherals, eliminating the need for developers to redesign and rewrite structures.

The company has seen a quick change in user behavior in terms of search trends in the past years. Online customers are demanding more interactive options that suit their need for immediate information, rather than just search queries. To address this, they improved Petal Search to make it more useful as a center for all local services. Petal Nearby was born as a result of this.

Petal Nearby is a high-traffic portal that connects users to all of the services available in their area. The Nearby site brings together a diverse range of local companies and services, including hotels, entertainment, attractions, education, food and drink, automotive, and other local services, to make searching easier and more convenient.

The Chinese tech firm claims that this update to petal search will assist local businesses in connecting better with their immediate market in terms of proximity, which is also critical today as people reduce their trips outside of their cities.

To learn more about the event, you may view the stream on Huawei's official Facebook page on AppGallery.