Google is one such Tech company in the world which keeps on
experimenting daily on new products and technology that can make the lives of
people modern and smart. They have since their launch developed as well as bought
many companies under them and made them more powerful. One famous product is android
OS which is used in almost 90% of the mobile systems around the world. The
Chrome OS for their chrome book and Pixel book laptops is slowly gaining
momentum which is seen as direct competition with Windows and Mac.
What is Fuchsia?
In 2016 google presented their new OS Fuchsia on Github
website. It is seen as a successor of Android and chrome in the long future. The
biggest thing about Fuchsia is that it is not based on Linux but on new google
developed kernel called ‘Zircon’. Google has also embedded Apple’s swift
Programming language to Fuchsia. It will provide a single platform for mobile
and desktop devices like what Apple and Microsoft does.
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The mobile version of Fuchsia is called ‘Armadillo’ like
nougat or lollypop is the version of android. The desktop version is called ‘Capybara’.
FEATURES OF FUCHSIA
Fuchsia has been designed with keeping in detail the extra
security that an OS needs. It can be used in Smartphones, tablets, PCs and even
IOT devices and has a good user interface.
You can see the Fuchsia working demo video here -http://video.arstechnica.com/watch/fuschia-demo
Neat and clean UI
Fuchsia offers a neat and clean multi-tasking or multi window
feature as I have seen and read from the various reviews of Fuchsia. You can easily drag and drop one app over the
other on the home screen. Every app opens up in a card format like the google
card. Google assistant is also part of the Fuchsia OS. For mobile apps it uses
flutter SDK which is very fast and can run heavy graphics and the material design
UI.
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For more images and video visit https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-on-the-pixelbook-it-works-it-actually-works/
Ledger cloud system
Through Fuchsia OS you can connect you mobile device and
desktop or tablet device. So it has Ledger which is a distributed storage system
where everything is stored in cloud. So if you close some app on your phone due
to battery problem or something, you can continue to work from the same stage in
the same app by opening in it on your desktop or tab.
Good news for android users
One of the benefits that a user will get is that if any kind
of updates come from google in Fuchsia, it will be rolled out to every single
user at the same time like what apple does with its devices. The android system
has a problem that not every user gets the same update whenever it is rolled on
and the update depends on the price of the phone.
Problems Fuchsia will face
The deployment of Fuchsia OS would take a lot of time and man
power as more than 90% of the devices are running on android and major switch
is big challenge for google.
Fuchsia mobile version demo- https://youtu.be/vGPwzmMFq9U
Current progress
Till now it has been tested on Pixelbook and some Chromebooks
and is currently on development and testing stage. It is expected to be released
by early 2019 at the google I/O event.
Right now it is an open source software and in works that can
be downloaded from https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror.
