During the 2026 Changsha · 1024 Programmers’ Day event, the CEIC Consumer Electronics Innovation Conference and CSDN joined forces in Shenzhen to present a cutting‑edge tech extravaganza for developers. As Yang Tao, Executive Deputy Director of the CEIC Organizing Committee, noted in an interview: “At the end of the day, every experience‑driven innovation in the consumer electronics sector is made possible by the code written by our programmers.” At this pivotal moment in technological evolution, developers are moving from plain handwritten code to leveraging agents and a rich array of on‑device APIs, using production tools that have undergone fundamental structural transformations to usher in an intelligent new era that benefits everyday users.
Zhou Ma, Director of the Developer Ecosystem Professional Committee of the China Software Industry Association, stated: “This Shenzhen-specific event brings cutting-edge topics such as AI Agents and HarmonyOS edge-side development directly to developers, enabling a face-to-face collision between the real-world needs of the industry’s front lines and developers’ innovative capabilities. From roundtable discussions to hands-on workshops, we’ve witnessed not only a concentrated showcase of hardcore technologies but also a vivid example of the collaborative upgrade between the developer ecosystem and the consumer electronics industry.”
Developer Roundtable: AI Agents Make Deep Inroads, Reshaping Software Engineering Productivity
As AI dramatically lowers the barrier to code generation, the value of full-stack developers (FDEs) is undergoing a shift. At a developer roundtable titled “OPC Evolution—Shenzhen: Rapid OPC Innovation in the Age of AI Agents,” Dataelem co-founder Qin Rui pointed out that with technology becoming more affordable, vast long-tail demand is being unleashed. Under this new, flexible software supply chain, development models are evolving into a structure where “the front end resembles consulting, while the back end resembles manufacturing.” Developers can no longer simply act as “message carriers”; they must deeply understand industry‑specific implicit rules and customers’ business decision‑making processes. As Qin Rui emphasized: “The cheaper code becomes, the more critical it is to understand customers, earn their trust, and deliver results.”
The evolution of the underlying toolchain is accelerating this reshaping of productivity. Liu Xuedong, a product planning expert at Huawei Developer Space, provided a detailed overview of the “AI Developer Space.” As an AI-native cloud-based development environment offered by Huawei Cloud for developers, it addresses longstanding pain points in traditional development—such as cumbersome environment setup, version conflicts, and fragmented collaboration—through features like “no installation required, sandbox isolation, and browser-as-environment.” Developers can simply use an AI SHELL driven by natural language to achieve end-to-end delivery, from requirement elicitation to one-click cloud deployment; for example, with a single sentence, they can have an Agent automatically write code and deploy a Gomoku application that supports two-player matches. At the conclusion of his presentation, Liu Xuedong stated plainly: “AI won’t replace developers, but it will replace those who don’t know how to use AI.”
Thanks to the toolchain’s “dimensionality reduction strike,” lightning-fast innovation by “super individuals” has become possible. Chen Hao, CEO of Shenzhen Ziyi Intelligent Technology, shared “OPC Creative Transformation: The YuYou App—From Idea to Application,” detailing how the YuYou Pro HarmonyOS version was brought to life: from articulating requirements through dialogue with AI, to fishing‑spot search, fishing‑date scheduling, and one‑click scene‑creation deployment—all handled by an AI Agent. The entire process took just two and a half months, with token costs of approximately RMB 5,000, effectively allowing one person to perform the work of an entire team. Chen Hao also paid tribute to his peers: “This path is not easy. You’ve worked hard—here’s to every super individual still on the journey,” adding, “There will always be opportunities for those who follow.”
Underpinning this rapid innovation are further advances in the underlying toolchain. According to Wang Yinan, a product expert at Huawei Cloud CodeArts, CodeArts focuses on building differentiated competitiveness across four key scenarios, helping developers assemble “agent‑engineer” teams. In demonstrations of incremental development for existing projects, the CodeArts Agent Team achieved a 100% pass rate with zero bugs and 100% branch coverage in unit tests; in HarmonyOS‑based scenarios, it delivered zero compilation errors and zero manual intervention, eliminating the need to launch DevEco Studio. He also revealed that CodeArts is advancing end‑to‑end intelligent Agentic DevOps and continuously strengthening its enterprise‑grade security and compliance capabilities.
HarmonyOS Co-Creation Day: Focusing on Core Technological Capabilities to Accelerate the Implementation of Application Innovations
The HarmonyOS Technology Forum, themed “Moving Toward the Light, Coding for the Future,” delved into the cutting-edge innovative features of HarmonyOS 7, focusing comprehensively on three core areas: AI Coding, HarmonyOS application issue diagnosis and boundary definition (DFX), and the HarmonyOS SDK. It systematically showcased HarmonyOS’s latest technical capabilities and practical application development experiences.
AI Coding capabilities continue to evolve, reshaping the app development experience.
Addressing pain points such as insufficient HarmonyOS‑specific training data, challenging validation, and the need to support a wide range of devices, Kalia, Product Manager for DevEco Code and DevEco CLI, provided an in-depth overview of the practical implementation of these dedicated AI development tools. DevEco Code delivers an out‑of‑the‑box AI development experience, featuring the built‑in GLM‑5.3 model and supporting Windows, macOS, and HarmonyOS. Its innovative Goal mode enables users to articulate requirements and acceptance criteria via natural language interaction, after which it automatically generates code, builds the application, and runs it on real devices or emulators—integrating automated testing and iterative debugging directly into the development workflow. On the UI development front, DevEco Code allows one‑click generation of ArkTS code from Figma and Pixso design files, leveraging component tree inspection and visual calibration to significantly reduce manual coding. For troubleshooting issues like app freezes or crashes, DevEco Code supports the /analyze command, enabling users to pinpoint root causes with a single click and generate remediation code, thereby greatly improving fault‑diagnosis efficiency.
For developers using general-purpose AI Agents, the DevEco CLI has reimagined the development workflow through “knowledge empowerment, regulatory constraints, and tool execution.” It not only incorporates approximately 22,000 documents totaling 20 million words of HarmonyOS‑specific corpora, but also offers over 70 high‑quality Skills covering ArkTS syntax and multi‑device compatibility. After code generation, it automatically invokes tools for syntax checking, building, testing, and more, closing the loop on error diagnosis and remediation, thereby helping third‑party AI Agents develop HarmonyOS applications more effectively.
Intelligent troubleshooting moves toward automation, with DFX enabling precise localization and boundary definition.
In terms of application stability assurance, HarmonyOS DFX technical expert Leo dissected troubleshooting approaches for common issues such as screen freezes, crashes, and memory leaks. HarmonyOS has encapsulated fault knowledge, log‑parsing tools, and diagnostic workflows into “Skills,” which are now available to address eight categories of fault localization, including screen freezes, ArkTS/JS crashes, memory leaks, and performance stutters. Taking screen‑freeze analysis as an example, after developers load the Skill on a local Agent, the tool automatically parses logs, evaluates system‑wide resources, and performs call‑stack analysis, directly generating a root‑cause report along with recommended fixes.
When it comes to quality management after an app goes live, AppGallery Connect’s APMS service not only handles alerting and data collection but also leverages AI‑assisted analysis to generate evidence chains and provide remediation recommendations, truly enabling end‑to‑end quality governance across the entire development, testing, and operations lifecycle.
HarmonyOS SDK remains open: 80,000 APIs power a seamless all-scenario experience
The SDK serves as the bridge between the system and developers. Michael, a HarmonyOS SDK architecture expert, shared that the HarmonyOS SDK currently offers more than 80,000 APIs and over 100 Kits, spanning six major domains including the application framework, media, graphics, and AI. In addition to implementing nine innovative directions—such as spatialization and all-scenario connectivity—the SDK has also undergone meticulous refinement to enhance development efficiency.
Currently, the API reference supports real-time viewing and integration with AI-powered Q&A within the IDE; the HarmonyOS SDK Skills now enable conversational access to features such as one-click Huawei account login, message push, and live windows. For diverse device form factors, a window-based responsive layout allows developers to achieve multi-screen compatibility with a single adaptation. Meanwhile, in high-frequency interactions, the permission‑granting scheme ensures that “in-app smart pop-up settings take effect immediately,” without requiring a restart or app exit. All of this is helping apps become “easy to use” while removing underlying barriers, enabling developers to craft an “enjoyable” user experience.
Li Yang, CTO of Shenzhen Jiaolong Tengfei Network Technology Co., Ltd. and an HDE Huawei Developer Expert, shared his experience using the “Long Meitu” app as an example: Developers do not need to invoke cloud-based large models at all; by simply calling the local Core Vision Kit, they can perform complex computations such as image super-resolution (upscaling by a factor of 4), subject segmentation (one-click background removal), and on-device OCR.
Conclusion
Turning our attention back from the forums to the conference exhibition area, at the various tech booths and hands-on workshops, we also saw developers translating cutting-edge, hardcore technologies into real, production-ready code that runs smoothly on screen.
As one developer at the scene remarked after trying Huawei Cloud’s CodePath: “It’s amazing! I was actually able to turn my ideas into tangible, usable works.” The thriving ecosystem of technological offerings is lowering the barriers to reinventing the wheel and bridging the gap across various consumer electronics devices, empowering everyone to become a creator. Whether it’s FDEs with a broad industry perspective or super‑individuals embracing HarmonyOS 7 and AI toolchains, they are all using their own code to embody the annual theme of 1024 Programmers’ Day: “Anyone Can Build.” As foundational technologies, developers, and hundreds of millions of consumers mutually empower one another in this two‑way journey, and as every idea can be brought to life through hands‑on coding that runs smoothly, the best era for developers is being written, line by line, by their own code.