What is EMUI? Complete Details of Huawei’s Android skin: EMUI was first introduced in version 1.0 on December 30, 2012 for the Ascend P1.
At that time, the user interface was still called “Emotion UI” (Emotion User Interface). From UI version 3.0 Huawei has decided to officially use only the short form EMUI and drop the original name.
The latest version of the skin is currently EMUI 9.1, which made its debut on the Huawei P30 Pro series. It’s a minor upgrade over EMUI 9.0 that was announced alongside the Mate 20 series and is now running on quite a few Huawei and Honor phones.
An overview of the versions can be found here:
Version Name Android version
Emotion UI 1.0 Android 4.0
Emotion UI 2.0 Android 4.2 – 4.4
EMUI 3.0 Android 4.4 – 5.1
EMUI 4.0 Android 6.0
EMUI 5.0 Android 7.0
EMUI 8.0 Android 8.0
EMUI 9.0 Android 9.0
EMUI 9.1 comes with GPU Turbo 3.0.
The second generation of the technology — called GPU Turbo 2.0 — is available on phones running EMUI 9.0. GPU Turbo 2.0 supports even more games and at a greater capacity. According to Huawei, it can “intelligently optimize intensive workloads and give the devices a performance boost on demand while reducing power consumption.”
It’s said to reduce SoC power consumption by 10 percent and supports 19 additional games listed below:
Fortnite
Knives Out
Battle Bay
Crazy Taxi
Real Racing 3
Into the Dead 2
NBA 2K19
Dragon Nest M
Duel Links
PES 2019
Dragon Ball Legends
FIFA Mobile
Free Fire
Minecraft
Helix
Plants vs. Zombie Heroes
Subway Surfers
Brawl Stars
Speed Drifters
EMUI: App drawer
The skin now allows users to toggle the app drawer on or off, offering the best of both worlds. It’s disabledby default, but you can go to Settings > Home screen and wallpaper >
Home Screen Style to turn it on.
EMUI: AI-related features
EMUI brings a couple of AI-related features to a few Huawei and Honor
devices. The camera identifies different scenes and objects in real-time and automatically adjusts things like color, contrast, brightnessand exposure to improve the image.
According to Huawei, phones like the Mate 20 Pro with EMUI 9.0 can recognize 5,000 different objects and 1,500 scenarios across 25 categories.
EMUI: Navigation dock
You can enable it by going to Settings > System > System navigation > Navigation dock.
EMUI: App lock
Enabling App lock is simple, Just go to Settings > Security and privacy > App lock, where you’ll see a list of the apps installed on your phone. Then just toggle the switch next to the apps you want to secure and you’re good to go.
EMUI: File safe
To try it out, go to Settings > Security and privacy > File safe. Once the feature is set up, just press the “Add” button at the bottom to add in images and other files.
