Ark Engine

Huawei Ark Engine is a conglomerate of proprietary application programming interfaces (APIs) similar to Microsoft DirectX for handling tasks related to system and multimedia, especially game programming and video, on HarmonyOS platform such as Graphics engine, ArkGraphics 2D for 2D computer graphics, 2D Drawing high-performance, interactive graphics with ArkUI support and also low-level, low-overhead hardware-accelerated 3D graphic and compute shader ArkGraphics 3D API, 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/P 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.