{"id":1090,"date":"2017-10-06T11:58:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T11:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bsetec.com\/blog\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2025-02-11T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T10:59:21","slug":"the-future-of-mobile-operating-system-is-fuchsia-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bsetec.com\/blog\/the-future-of-mobile-operating-system-is-fuchsia-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Of Mobile Operating System is Fuchsia By Google"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An intriguing Git repository<\/span> appeared a few days ago from Google. Entitled Fuchsia, it claims to be \u201ca new Operating System???.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has support for far more languages than Android, with Dart, Go, LLVM and Rust compilers built in. The Dart support especially is well ingrained, and after recent experiments with the language myself, I often wondered how much of a Java replacement it could be.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On first inspection, it seems ideal for embedded devices, but other features and code commits hint at a unified OS for desktop and mobile.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s unlikely that Google has any concrete plans to replace Android just yet, and it\u2019s even more unlikely that they would work on it in the open. Still, it\u2019s a fascinating mystery, I\u2019d love to know what you think about our new pink and purple enigma.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unboxing Fuchsia<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brand new Google OS is not Linux based and it uses an advanced Google-developed micro-kernel coined as \u201cMagenta???. With the onboarding of Fuchsia, Google would be on the way to dump the Linux kernel as well as the GPL the operating system that has been licensed under the mix of MIT. Apache 2.0 and BSD 3 clause. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuchsia is designed technically to work on modern systems and phones with extremely fast processors and using non-trivial amounts of RAM.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may be wondering: what the heck is a microkernel? It\u2019s a stripped-down version of a traditional kernel (the core of an operating system that controls a computer\u2019s underlying hardware).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This image illustrates some of the tasks kernels manage that mircokernels:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Google Fuchsia<\/b> now has a UI that has been named the \u201cArmadillo???. The Fuchsia interface is written with Flutter SDK (cross-platform). <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armadillo has a different home screen which has a home button, a keyboard, and a window manager. It supports a vertical scrolling system and there are specific slots where the user can adjust the various day-to-day aspects like battery icon, date and time display, temperature settings, profile pictures, and so on. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also uses the concept of story cards like which are the most frequently used or recently used apps, and a lot more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armadillo<\/b> is written in Flutter and is technically divided into two separate apps i.e. Armadillo and Armadillo User Shell. Where Armadillo is a Flutter app and contains the majority of the code and can run on iOS as well as Android and any other platform that Flutter supports. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other end, an Armadillo User shell is a kind of thin wrapper around the Armadillo instance that acquires the data from the Fuchsia system and interacts with the Fuchsia system\u2019s services via the FIDL interfaces. Hence Armadillo runs everywhere Flutter runs but Armadillo User Shell only runs on Fuchsia.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Android, as well as Chrome OS, are both based on Linux and it has numerous downsides. The fragility of Linux lies in the fact that the system is composed of n number of components and they might work reliably but not necessarily fast. This becomes the reason for the problem mostly for the open sources and it creates significant loopholes in the security.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuchsia in a way is expected to overcome all the shortcomings of the previous Operating Systems, thereby promising a consistently high performance impossible to implement in the present Android system architecture. Through all the vital experiences with smartphones and PC operating systems, Google has planned Fuchsia well where it can control each and every component of it right from kernel to UI to a lot more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google hasn\u2019t officially said anything about the purpose of this operating system, so I\u2019ll speculate:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n