The Distributed Scheduler in OpenHarmony provides functions related to system abilities \(also called system services\), including system ability startup, registration, and query.
Distributed Scheduler is used for cross-device component management. It allows the local device to access or control remote components, and enables app collaboration in distributed scenarios. Its main functions are as follows:
- Remote ability startup: Starts an ability on a remote device.
- Remote ability migration: Migrates an ability to a remote device.
- Remote ability binding: Binds an ability on a remote device.
- System service management: Provides system service startup, registration, and query on the local device as well as system service query on a remote device.
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