Recently, some netizens mentioned that the WeChat Hongmeng version on Hongmeng 5 is larger than the Android installation package, which is different from the software promoted by Huawei that is small and fast. According to actual screenshots from the app store, the latest version of Hongmeng WeChat is 428.9MB, while Android is 245MB.It does seem that Hongmeng is larger, but in fact the two systems are not the same from the underlying logic.
According to the popular science of the blogger "Beijing Digital Master",The Android App is a compressed package, which will be decompressed during the installation process. After the Android is completed, more than 200 MB will directly become more than 1GB.
Hongmeng, like iOS, is directly installed and does not need to be decompressed, so it will take up as much storage space as you can see in the app store, which is more intuitive.
Judging from the file, the Android installation package has the suffix ".APK" and can be installed on all Android devices.It relies on the system's ART virtual machine decoding and operation, which needs to contain all functional codes and resources, and is relatively large in size.
The suffix of the Hongmeng installation package is ".HAP". It is a native Hongmeng application and can only be installed on Huawei HarmonyOS system devices. It relies on the Ark compiler and multi-terminal deployment framework of the Hongmeng system.Compiling high-level languages directly into machine code completely eliminates the additional overhead of dynamic compilation of virtual machines.
According to Huawei’s previous statement, the Ark Compiler can improve system operation fluency by 24%, system response speed by 44%, and fluency can be improved by 60% after third-party applications are recompiled.
In addition, ".HAP" Hongmeng native applications must pass Huawei's "application signature", otherwise they cannot be installed normally and are more secure.
In contrast, ".APK" does not have a signature process. Files downloaded in any way can be installed on Android devices, and security is not fully guaranteed.