(Yicai) Jan. 19 --  Sixty game developers have joined Huawei Technologies' HarmonyOS ecosystem and made more than 70 games since native apps for the Chinese tech giant’s operating system started being developed last September.

Twenty-five gaming companies, including Giant Interactive Group, attended Huawei’s developer event yesterday, the Huawei Developers Alliance Service announced on WeChat the same day. Eighteen games will start development for HarmonyOS, it added.

HarmonyOS is an operating system for smart devices released in August 2019. Huawei launched a HarmonyOS-native apps expansion last September, with businesses and developers from various fields, including social, audio and video, gaming, news, finance, and food, joining to build an OS ecosystem.

The number of devices in the HarmonyOS ecosystem jumped to 800 million from 700 million in the past five months, Richard Yu, chief executive of the Shenzhen-based firm’s consumer business group, said at the event.

The first group of over 200 app vendors is accelerating the development of HarmonyOS-native apps, covering life services, travel, finance, social information, games, and entertainment, he added.

Huawei has also attracted students from 305 universities to take part in activities and open classes on HarmonyOS and has kicked off more than 150 industry-university cooperation projects. Over 380,000 developers have passed HarmonyOS certification, providing a sufficient talent pool for the sustainable innovation and development of its ecosystem.

Editor: Martin Kadiev