Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Fuchsia, New OS on Android

Google is allegedly developing a new OS called Fuchsia. The operating system first appeared in August last year, still a command line.

Later, Fuchsia appeared in the form of a leaked operating system interface (UI) coded "Armadillo". Homescreen Fuchsia displays cards or cards that can be scrolled vertically.

In the center of the screen there is a sort of place for user profile photos, dates, city names, and battery icons. On top of it is a "stories" card that works like "recent apps" on Android.

Read: Google Creates New Operating System Named Fuchsia?

UI is still apparently a prototype is also capable of displaying split-screen interface and the appearance can be enlarged to fit the tablet screen.

Different from Android and Chrome OS before, Fuchsia did not use the Linux kernel, but a new microkernel named Magenta developed by Google.
Fuchsia is based on open-source code so it's still free to tamper with. The SDK used is Google Flutter which can be used to write Android and iOS apps.

The Google documentation summarized by KompasTekno from ArsTechnica mentions that Magenta is targeting "modern phones and PCs with high-performance processors".

For now it is still too early to speculate further about Fuchsia. The new OS may still take many more years before it is ready to be released. That, too, will be released.

But still there is a possibility Fuchsia will be the successor of Android or Chrome OS. Android first also began as an operating system developed for digital cameras.

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