--- title: "Restriced by the West, Huawei's Open Source HarmonyOS Now Powers 55 Million Devices" url: https://daily.dev/posts/restriced-by-the-west-huawei-s-open-source-harmonyos-now-powers-55-million-devices-z49kurl8a source_url: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17338103/harmony-os-rises-china type: article source: "It's Foss" published: 2026-05-11T06:45:13.879Z updated: 2026-05-11T06:45:38.781Z tags: ["open-source", "huawei"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 2 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Restriced by the West, Huawei's Open Source HarmonyOS Now Powers 55 Million Devices **[It's Foss](https://daily.dev/sources/itsfoss)** · 3 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Huawei's HarmonyOS has surpassed 55 million devices as of March 2026, adding 23 million in under six months. The growth is driven by HarmonyOS 6 improvements including fluid animations, the Ark engine for better performance and battery life, AI features, and an AI-driven security architecture. HarmonyOS is built on OpenHarmony, an open source base similar to Android's AOSP but independent from it. However, it still relies on proprietary layers and Chinese-only documentation limits global accessibility. Critics have also flagged Huawei spamming open source projects to push HarmonyOS adoption. The milestone signals a potential challenger to the Apple/Google mobile duopoly. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Linux phones are more important now than ever.](https://daily.dev/posts/linux-phones-are-more-important-now-than-ever--ueauwht3f) · Hacker News · 60 upvotes · 8 comments - [OpenAI developing AI agent smartphone with Qualcomm and MediaTek, targeting 300-400M annual shipments by 2028](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-developing-ai-agent-smartphone-with-qualcomm-and-mediatek-targeting-300-400m-annual-shipment-qksdilim4) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Venezuela’s president thinks American spies can’t hack Huawei phones](https://daily.dev/posts/venezuela-s-president-thinks-american-spies-can-t-hack-huawei-phones-0f3tilsrs) · TechCrunch · 12 upvotes · 8 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#huawei](https://daily.dev/tags/huawei) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/restriced-by-the-west-huawei-s-open-source-harmonyos-now-powers-55-million-devices-z49kurl8a)