Google developed a modern open source system Fuchsia OS, but can it be a rival for Android?Google has released its brand new OS, to the public, Fuchsia. Whilst consumers have been using devices powered by Google’s two current operating systems Chrome OS and Android, Google has been hard at work for the last few years on its next operating system and now it is here, but What is Google Fuchsia? Is it a new Android?
Google has been pretty quiet about the project and it initially leaked in 2016, after code was shared on GitHub before Google issued a guide to run the OS on one of his Pixel Books in 2018, and launched its official website in 2019. The new OS is designed to work universally across devices, so think of it running on everything from phones to laptops to car dashboards and be honest to smart objects like traffic lights.
What is Google Fuchsia? Is it a new Android?
Google Fuchsia looks like a new Android, and we think that it is the main purpose. Unlike Chrome OS and Android, Google Fuchsia is not built on the Linux Kernel, instead, using a completely different Kernel called Zircon which was originally conceived for low energy consumption on embedded devices.The OS launched not with fanfare or celebration as you might expect but with a quiet update of a relatively low-key product if you own a first-generation Nest Hub from 2018, then you are in luck as this is the first device to get the new OS. It is delivered by an over-the-air update first to users in the preview program, then to all devices over the next few months, you likely had not noticed the change.The OS launched not with fanfare or celebration as you might expect but with a quiet update of a relatively low-key product if you own a first-generation Nest Hub from 2018, then you are in luck as this is the first device to get the new OS. It is delivered by an over-the-air update first to users in the preview program, then to all devices over the next few months, you likely had not noticed the change.However, as the hub world looks and works the same as always has just the engineering under the hood will have changed. This is possible due to the device’s software having been written in a flutter the fewer developers build applications that work across multiple platforms including iOS, Android, and most importantly future beyond, this software can run Android apps natively, and it looks like a lot of work has been done to make the OS change as seamless as possible.
Google has acknowledged the software rollout is happening but they do not seem to want to make a big deal of it at their major developer’s conference. It is not clear what the next step for the OS will be could it appear on the other smart home devices other made by Google products possibly even a phone or a pixel book.
How Good is Google Fuchsia OS?
With the combination of Google’s release and some fantastic work by the developers of dahlia OS and with the help of an emulator, we tried Google Fuchsia in its early stages to try it for ourselves. Previously efforts to use Google Fuchsia have not exactly been a user-friendly task
