The new OS has been under development at Google for over a year. Reports related to it have been recently leaked. This information paints Fuchsia as a completely new OS, written from scratch & undergoing a heavy development effort involving a crack team of in-house Google developers.
A peek at Fuchsia & its Armadillo System UI shows that Google leaves Android’s traditional windowing UI design behind, substituting it with a vertical scrolling design, based on “Story” cards that represent recent apps. There’s a list of suggestions that are reminiscent of Google Now & a lot more innovative UI bits that hint at things to come, although the current version of the OS is in a pre-Alpha state.
With this effort, it looks like Google is looking forward to leaving its veritable Linux & Java-based Android OS behind & also parting ways with the Open Source GPL. The new OS is also open source, but based on BSD, MIT & Apache licenses, & will not Google beholden to Oracle’s Java VM.
The Linux kernel will be replaced by a Magenta microkernel, designed for embedded real-time operating systems, & is written using Google’s JavaScript alternative Dart programming language & the “Flutter” SDK, which gives it cross-platform capabilities, so that it can also run on Android & iOS.
This means that the new OS is focused on high performance, since the combination of Dart, Flutter & its new “Escher” high speed renderer is optimized to speed up Google’s Material Design UI guidelines.
The Fuchsia design team is led by Travis Geiselbrecht & a high-powered team of Google developers. You can follow the goings on via the GitHub project page here.
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