HDD Online Salon·Innovative Development Session: Integration of Multiple Services to Help Application Innovation and Development

On May 24, the HUAWEI Developer Day (Huawei Developer Day, HDD) online salon and innovative development session hosted by the Huawei Developer Alliance met with developers at the Huawei Developer Academy and major live broadcast platforms. The live broadcast content mainly focuses on the development of HarmonyOS and HMS ecological applications, bringing about cutting-edge product highlights and technology updates such as HarmonyOS service cards, HMS Core open capabilities, application efficient development solutions, domestic game engine Cocos Creator, etc., to provide developers with more efficient Development capabilities allow developers to focus more on application innovation.

Play HarmonyOS, service cards make technology life more convenient

Since the release of HarmonyOS 2.0, the service card has been used 5 billion times, and the user usage rate has reached 70%. At present, the card interface display form has become a new trend in APP design. Developers can pre-load important information or operations of applications/services to the card through the HarmonyOS service card, so as to achieve direct service and reduce experience levels.

Specifically, the service card is beautiful, convenient and easy to use, and carries the characteristics of emotional sustenance. It supports smart terminal devices such as mobile phones, tablets, large screens, car machines, and wearables, and supports three types of scanning, touching, and talking. At the entrance, users can control the service card through HarmonyOS code, device NFC and smart voice. For developers, service cards are undoubtedly an effective way to improve the APP user experience.

Online HarmonyOS-related experts also demonstrated the entire process of efficiently developing service cards through the IDE tool DevEco Studio. For the specific development process, you can watch the live replay at [Huawei Developer Alliance Academy] to learn more about it.

Work with HMS Core to create more user-friendly AI applications

This is an era of AI applications. Artificial intelligence has penetrated into many fields such as education, travel, entertainment, office, etc. without knowing it, and it is constantly refreshing and giving birth to a new way of life. This time, HMS Core related experts shared the open capabilities of HMS Core Machine Learning Service (ML Kit) and HUAWEI HiAI Foundation, helping developers to practice AI technology in specific industry scenarios, master the AI capabilities required for application development, and bring benefits to applications. More new AI features to come.

ML Kit can provide developers with AI capabilities that are easy to use and provide diversified services, including text, speech, language, image, face and human, and custom model AI services . Text translation is one of the many AI capabilities of ML Kit. The ML Kit translation service can provide a variety of usage scenarios such as email translation, call translation, reading translation, real-time voice translation, and AR translation, solving users' poor communication due to language barriers. pain points.

ML Kit text translation service supports device-cloud collaboration, cloud-side capabilities support wider vertical coverage, and support more languages. At the same time, relying on the layout of Huawei's global cloud service sites, 300-byte text can be completed within 200 milliseconds translation speed . The integration of end-to-end capabilities is simple, and offline translation can be completed without the need for a network. Developers can freely choose and use different language packs according to their needs.

For the first time, HMS Core related experts demonstrated the simultaneous interpretation solution that has been deeply used in Huawei, that is, through the real-time speech recognition, machine translation, speech synthesis and other capabilities of ML Kit, the audio is translated into different languages in real time, and the audio in multiple languages is output. content, so as to balance the delay and accuracy, realize multilingual and low-cost effective communication, and have the advantages of low delay, accuracy, and customizable voice. After more than a year of polishing, the simultaneous interpretation solution will be officially launched .

HUAWEI HiAI Foundation, as Huawei's AI computing capability open platform, helps developers get a better open experience of AI applications under the acceleration of NPU hardware, provides developers with more than 300 AI operators that are compatible with high-quality models in the industry, and launches the end-cloud Collaboration, Model Zoo, Model Quantization Toolkit, Network Structure Search Toolkit, Multi-IP Deep Collaboration and other solutions and capabilities help development through easier-to-use toolchains, better performance, and lower power consumption solutions Users can quickly deploy AI applications, save computing resources, and improve development efficiency.

HUAWEI HiAI Foundation supports many business scenarios of device-side AI. Among them, device-side video scenarios have high requirements on real-time power consumption. For example, device-side video super-resolution capability requires high-performance real-time processing and the underlying hardware to reduce power consumption and maintain battery life. .

As the platform base for end-to-end AI computing, HUAWEI HiAI Foundation can quickly convert the original model into Huawei Davinci Model, and optimize the model structure through Davinci Model's tuning technology, give full play to the computing power of the NPU hardware unit, and make the model less expensive. Power consumption runs efficiently on the mobile phone side, users can get better video quality experience, the video platform can save bandwidth and server resources, and developers can efficiently integrate services and reduce workload. At present, HUAWEI HiAI Foundation has successfully helped Huawei Video, iQiyi, Youku and other video platforms to deploy video super-score technology on the device side.

A practical weapon for reducing costs and increasing efficiency: Serverless construction services

In the application development stage, developers may face problems such as waste of cloud resources, cumbersome authentication methods, multiple website deployment links, and long function development cycles. This time, the Huawei Developer Alliance has launched the " Application Efficient Development Solution " for developers to help the majority of developers. Developers build automatic elastic scaling capabilities in a unified way to reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Specifically, developers can quickly build applications through cloud functions, cloud databases, and cloud storage, the cost of automatic elastic scaling resources can be reduced by 75%, and application development efficiency can be improved by 70%; authentication services and cloud functions can quickly build applications that are safe and reliable. An application integrates the authentication service, the workload of the server is reduced by 80%, and the workload of the client is reduced by 40%; cloud hosting supports one-click hosting of websites without operation and maintenance, which can improve the efficiency of manual website deployment. 20 times; the serverless scenario template has the characteristics of rapid integration, launch, and free operation and maintenance. Building applications based on rich scenario templates can increase the efficiency by 98.6%. (Data sourced from Huawei Developer Alliance and developer feedback)

Cocos empowers efficient game development and broadens the boundaries of the application ecosystem

As a popular 2D & 3D game engine in the world, Cocos Creator has in-depth cooperation with Huawei Developer Alliance in multiple dimensions such as technology, service, and ecology, empowering developers in an all-round way.

Technically, Cocos is not only the world's first graphics rendering engine that supports HarmonyOS, but also has completed the platform adaptation of Open Harmony. In addition, Cocos has also developed and implemented a deferred rendering pipeline by integrating the HMS Core CG Kit, helping developers make games with better graphics on the Huawei platform.

At the service level, Cocos based mobile games have developed access to services including HUAWEI ID, payment, and advertising. In the near future, it will also support service capabilities such as push, analysis, and positioning. Developers can access HMS Core with one click through Cocos Creator. , seamlessly upload existing game content to HUAWEI AppGallery Connect, and quickly publish it to the HUAWEI AppGallery, greatly improving game development efficiency.

On the ecological level, Cocos itself has 1.5 million developers in 203 countries around the world, and many developers themselves are experts in both Cocos and Huawei fields. In the future, Cocos plans to focus on mining more KOLs in the OpenHarmony community, and cooperate with KOLs to bring more technical documents and tutorials to developers, help KOLs to efficiently create content that conforms to the platform ecology, and promote the prosperity and development of both community ecosystems.

The person in charge of the Cocos engine ecology mentioned that under the trend of the Internet of Everything, HarmonyOS's multi-device collaboration and transfer capabilities are very attractive, both for game developers and players, and the innovation of interactive mode will be born in the game industry. produce different interactive content. In the future, the Cocos engine will also focus on supporting the multi-device capabilities of HarmonyOS, and continuously expand new application scenarios.

Open ecology, win-win future

HUAWEI Developer Day is a platform for in-depth exchanges between the Huawei Developer Alliance and the majority of developers. Focusing on the latest technologies and product forms of mobile terminals, we will continue to deliver the latest products and open service capabilities of Huawei terminals to developers. Combined with the latest industry development trends, we will work with developers to create an excellent user experience for end consumers.

In the future, the Huawei Developer Alliance will continue to bring more activities of different forms and different themes to the majority of developers, and work with developers to build a win-win HMS ecosystem. Welcome to the official website of HUAWEI Developer Alliance to learn more about HDD. You can watch this live broadcast at [Huawei Developer Academy].

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