Google seems to be developing an entirely new operating system. However, here’s the thing: it’s unclear right now what this operating system is for, including what gadgets it may control. Here’s all that we know so far about the project, which is currently going by the name Google Fuchsia.
Fuchsia is a capability based, real-time operating system (RTOS) as of now being developed by Google. It initially wind up plainly known to general society when the task showed up on GitHub in August 2016 with no official declaration. As opposed to earlier Google-created operating systems such as Chrome OS and Android, which are based on Linux kernels, Fuchsia is based on a new microkernel called “Zircon”, derived from “Little Kernel”, a small operating system intended for embedded systems,which was produced by Travis Geiselbrecht, a maker of the NewOS kernel utilized by Haiku OS.
Fuchsia is another OS that could bind together Chrome OS and Android into a single operating system (something that’s been heavily speculated since 2015). Reports have guaranteed that OS will release in 2017. So, Google’s own particular documentation depicts the product as focusing on “modern phones and modern personal computers” with “quick processors” and non-trivial amounts of RAM.”
Fuchsia is likewise based on Zircon, a “medium-sized microkernel” in view of a task called LittleKernel, which is implied for installed systems, such as a device that has a specific purpose but doesn’t require a whole OS, like a router or watch. Also, the two developers listed on Fuchsia’s GitHub page – a senior software engineer at Google and a former engineer on Android TV and Nexus Q – are well-known experts in embedded systems.
Besides, Google’s documentation notes Zircon bolsters client modes, designs rendering, and a “capacity based security display”. Albeit this focuses to Fuchsia being an OS for Wi-Fi associated contraptions, Google as of now has an IoT platform called Android Things. Additionally, Ars Technica has assembled the Armadillo system UI, and it appears as though Fuchsia is proposed to be a cell phone or tablet OS.
Features
Fuchsia’s UI and applications are composed with “Flutter”, a software development kit allowing cross-platform development abilities for Fuchsia, Android and iOS. Flutter produces applications in light of Dart, offering applications with elite that keep running at 120 edges for each second. Flutter additionally offers a Vulkan-based graphics rendering motor called “Escher”, with specific support for “Volumetric soft shadows”, an element that Ars Technica wrote “seems custom-built to run Google’s shadow-heavy “Material Design” interface guidelines”.
Because of the Flutter software development kit offering cross-platform opportunities, users are able to install parts of Fuchsia on Android devices. Ars Technica noticed that, while clients could test Fuchsia, nothing “works”, including that “it’s all a bunch of placeholder interfaces that don’t do anything”, though finding multiple similarities between Fuchsia’s interface and Android, including a Recent Apps screen, a Settings menu, and a split-screen view for viewing multiple apps at once
Will it replace Android?
Possibly. Android is loaded with issues that Google presently can’t seem to address. To begin with, there’s fragmentation caused by several unique gadgets from many makers utilizing extraordinary, changed forms of Android instead of the most recent, purest adaptation. Second, there’s an update problem. Google has a yearly discharge plan for Android updates, yet it takes around four years for an update to fully flood the ecosystem.
Although a large number of these issues are identified with Android being open source – which implies Google offers it to OEMs and carriers and gives them a chance to tinker with it and load it onto random hardware, resulting in fragmentation, as Google can’t then choose to push Android direct to these gadgets if any changes and tinkering has been done – another issue is that Android depends on Linux.