On June 14th, during CES Asia 2018, Huawei held an EMUI open class. Dr. Wang Chenglu, the president of Huawei Consumer Business Software Engineering Department, described in detail Huawei's efforts in optimizing the system experience and the achievements. It also talked about EMUI. Open Ecology, recently announced Huawei's 'GPU Turbo' technology and Huawei's Android P adaptation situation! Dr. Wang Chenglu also said that from June 22nd to 23rd, Huawei will hold the 2018 Huawei Terminal Global Partners and Developers Conference in Beijing.
Each experience upgrade is a complex system engineering
Dr. Wang Chenglu said: 'The overall volume of EMUI has increased to 350 million live users with the increase of Huawei's mobile phone market share. It covers 216 countries and 77 languages.' Such a large user base is a glory for Huawei and it is also a Responsibilities and pressures, If ensuring that both new and old users can get a better experience, Huawei engineers are concerned about the important issues!
As everyone knows, when it comes to the Android-based system UI, there is a topic that cannot be evaded – Kardon! In this regard, Dr. Wang Chenglu also believes that Kardon is a pain point for Android users when using a terminal device! To solve this problem, simply relying on upgrading the hardware of your mobile phone is far from enough. The first thing to understand is what causes the phone to freeze!
After solving the problem, it is necessary to solve the problem. After studying the 'secret behind the mobile phone', Huawei discovered that the main culprits in causing the mobile phone to get stuck are: Loose management of the Android system, insufficient system resources, fragmented storage space, and increasingly large data ( In addition to the data generated by the user, there is also some garbage data generated by the application of scribble.) How does Huawei solve the problem? Dr. Wang Chenglu concluded: 'Every experience is a complex system engineering'.
The mobile phone is composed of 'components'. It is difficult to make clear a sentence or two sentences. There are too many hardware and software contents, but it can be summarized as the underlying hardware, kernel, middleware, architecture layer, and application layer. Parts! The optimization of each part can enhance the mobile experience. However, Dr. Wang Chenglu said that we can make mobile phones smooth by expanding the memory of mobile phones. This is meaningful, but it is also a waste of resources! In order to optimize the performance of mobile phones in a more rational and economical way, Huawei has carried out 'layered clean-up and optimization', step-by-step progressively, and ultimately at the top level - the application layer has given consumers a better experience.
After the optimization, there is a crucial link - testing! Huawei's efforts in testing are indeed worthy of attention. In order to simulate the actual use scenarios of users as much as possible, Huawei has established a relatively complete testing system through cooperation with third-party organizations. Several automated test centers were established. At the same time, Huawei also has a forward-looking vision and open mind and actively cooperates with industry partners, research institutes, and leading efficient and consulting companies. In order to promote the entire ecological development, Huawei also created Open-End Labs - Openlab, offers content including joint innovation, openness, and shared testing.
Of course, while optimizing equipment, building an open ecosystem, and pushing the industry forward, Huawei has also accumulated a lot of outstanding technologies, which has brought a new starting point for new products to be released. For example, Dr. Wang Chenglu introduced the TEE SS fingerprint, Sensorhub Lite OS, Virtual Machine Garbage Collection GC/AOT, Ultra Memory (optimized memory usage), iAware, etc. Of course, users are most concerned about the scary technology GPU Turbo.
The new height of GPU Turbo gaming experience
GPU Turbo is a revolutionary graphics processing acceleration technology. On June 13th, He Gang, President of Huawei's mobile phone product line for consumer services, also gave a keynote introduction during the CES Asia 2018 keynote speech. To sum up briefly, GPU Turbo will Graphics processing efficiency is increased by 60%, and average SoC energy consumption is reduced by 30%. The most directly and closely connected application scenarios are games, AR, VR, etc. (Future GPUs consume a lot of power, and the scenes involving graphics and image processing are all GPU Turbo. The stage for value.)
For example, we are familiar with the game experience. On the spot, the author uses the GPU Turbo-enabled mobile phone to play “King of the Glory.” In the high frame rate mode, the number of mobile phone frames has stabilized between 58-60, and the performance is very smooth. In the late stage of the game, there is no sense of rattling! For GPU Turbo to bring the game experience to the promotion, Dr. Wang Chenglu made a more realistic interpretation of the applied technology: 'When playing a game, if there is between two frames 80% is the same, it does not need to deal with 80%, and then can greatly increase the rendering speed.
The emergence of GPU Turbo not only makes the game run more smoothly, but also brings more 'open methods' to my application. For example, you can set more display styles (try black and white nostalgia?). Of course Dr. Wang Chenglu also Speaking, GPU Turbo will be open to third parties to attract more developers to join in and enrich the content ecology. In terms of the current mobile internet ecology, the importance of content is constantly increasing. Users choose content from consumer hardware and gradually change to Content consumption hardware. So hardware and content are mutually reinforcing relationships. For GPU Turbo, if there is not enough content to support, it is difficult for users to feel the experience upgrade brought by this 'scary technology'!
In the future, GPU Turbo will also serve as the basic core capability of Huawei and Glory Mobile, which will help smoother and smoother EMUI and upper-layer graphics applications. It will also support innovative services such as AR and VR, and eventually invest in more application scenarios. The biggest highlight of GPU Turbo is to make smart phones 'rejuvenate.' For users with old phones and low-profile phones, many large-scale games are eager to go unnoticed! However, GPU Turbo belongs to 'Knowledge Mountain has Tigers, but it tends to Hushan Mountain'. , Optimized the performance of low-profile phones.
According to the introduction of the OTA upgrade, Huawei/Glory can enjoy this new technology on many network models. On June 13, He Gang, President of Huawei's consumer mobile phone product line, announced the GPU Turbo upgrade push 'Roadmap' - Huawei Mate The 10 series will become the first Huawei mobile phone to support GPU Turbo. Mate10 will open the membership service application channel at the end of June and launch version push one after another. Huawei's other series of mobile phones will also be upgraded GPU Turbo technology this year, July is Mate RS, The P20 and Nova 2S series, and the relatively mid-range Nova 3E, Enjoy 8 Plus, McMans 6 and Changsue 7S will be upgraded in August, and the relatively earlier flagship model Mate9, P10 series will be upgraded in October.
'Gorgeous low-key' Huawei stepping test Android P
Due to the market turnaround in the 'Hundred Schools of Conversation,' the speed of follow-up of each system's UI after the Android system was updated has been the focus of netizens' criticism. For some reasons, 'fresh' Android systems are often only picked up by Nexus and Pixel series mobile phones. Take '. But this year's Android P Developer Preview has yet to be upgraded by many domestic brands... but it does not include Huawei.
Of course, Huawei is not a stagnation, but it has already been “darkness”. According to the introduction in early March of this year, Huawei cooperated with Google for Android P. In mid-March, Huawei Terminal Open Labs Android P version compatibility test was launched. The developer can call the Pixel model in the Huawei terminal open lab to perform Android P version-related compatibility tests; after a short time, Huawei released Android P version 1000 mainstream application compatibility test report, urges the application manufacturer to join the latest Android as soon as possible. The application compatibility compatibility of the version is currently in progress. At present, Huawei is still strengthening the topic of discussion on strengthening the compatibility of Android P versions with companies such as the 360 Hardening, Love Encryption, Digital Alliance Technology, Naga Reinforcement, etc., and adapting in advance to upgrade Android. P's preparation.
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The Android system itself is an open ecosystem, but with the fierce competition in the smart phone market, it is very difficult to “fight” users from the hardware point of view. Therefore, manufacturers are all looking forward to 'attracting' users through innovation, content, and experience. Now it is all promoting their own ecology! It can be said that it is an open, closed-loop ecosystem. After all, who can grab users through products, it means occupying the first place in market competition!
From this perspective, Huawei's strategy of building platforms from multiple aspects of hardware and software is very important! Now that Huawei has a large user base, billion-unit daily active users are themselves a fortune, and Huawei has not abandoned it. "Old classmates'" This point can be felt by Huawei's optimization at the system level, such as GPU Turbo. After all, there are many people using the old handsets one or two years ago. This is also a service and experience upgrade!
In the past two years, Huawei's affirmative efforts have also captured the user's 'pain points' - innovations! From dual cameras to triple cameras, coupled with popular technologies such as AI, users can use Huawei's terminal devices better. Enjoy the charm of mobile internet and technology!
