Ark Engine

Huawei Ark Engine is a conglomerate of proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs) for handling tasks related to system and multimedia, especially game programming and video, on HarmonyOS and OpenHarmony platform such as software graphics engine stack, ArkGraphics 2D for 2D computer graphics, 2D Drawing high-performance and ArkGraphics 3D graphics engine stack that support standard OpenGL and Vulkan backend, interactive graphics with ArkUI binding support, multimedia engine for audio and video, memory engine, scheduling engine, storage engine and low power consumption engine.

Introduced in HarmonyOS 4.0 in August 2023 for all types of Huawei flagship devices from Vision TVs, interactive white boards, IdeaHub, MatePad tablets, Huawei Mate/Pura smartphones, Huawei Watch devices and other computing devices taking advantage of Qualcomm Snapdragon and mostly Kirin chipsets, alongside HarmonyOS NEXT core system iteration of the operating system alongside open-source OpenHarmony variant with API 12 5.0 Beta 1 version.