Nah Beh! Google Inc new OS to kill Android - Fuchsia OS

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This is our first look at what might be Google's new operating system for phones, tablets, and computers

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The home screen of Fuchsia OS is very different from that of OSes like Windows 10 or macOS.Ron Amadeo/ArsTechnica

Google is the company behind two of the most well-known and popular operating systems (OS), Chrome OS and — more notably — Android. However, it's kind of an open secret at this point that the search giant has actively been working on a third OS, which goes by the name of "Fuchsia."

Google acknowledged the existence of Fuchsia last year, when Android VP of engineering Dave Burke called it an "early-stage experimental project." What's giving it the status of OS is its recent development, which allowed some people to run the code on Google's own Pixelbook and launch a working system.

IT worker Mitch Blevins opened up a YouTube channel last week and has uploaded a series of videos in which he shows some of the features of Fuchsia.

And on Thursday, ArsTechnica's Ron Amadeo also managed to do the same, and we now have some clear images that give us a flavour of what Fuchsia might end up being if Google ever brings it to actual devices.

The main thing that differentiates Fuchsia from Chrome OS and Android is its core, which is not based on Linux but rather on a new kernel called "Zircon." What this means is that Fuchsia has been developed as a system intended to work on a multitude of platforms, not just phones or laptops.

Here's how it looks:

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When the OS first boots up, you are greeted with a familiar, Android-looking lock screen.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
There are three buttons at the bottom right, which can be either clicked or tapped (both the trackpad and the touchscreen work), and Fuchsia's symbol at the top left.

The clock at the center is very reminiscent of Android, too.

If you try to log in, Google will run you through its usual procedure, but the last screen remains blank.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube

You can only enter as a guest, and when you do, you land on the home screen.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
The home screen is radically different from that of any conventional OS on both mobile and desktop.

It looks a bit like a stretched out Google Now: There's some info right in the middle — like time and WiFi status — and then what seems to be a custom, personalised feed of Google-related stuff.

Swipe up to get into the Google Now-like feed.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
Google may have replaced Google Now with the more powerful, artificial intelligence-based Assistant, but the feed's look resembles Google Now.

There are only three cards here, and they are just samples (as there is no user logged in), but they are the same kinds of cards that appear in your mobile Google feed — including the rounded look.


Yes, apps are still there!

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
The big difference between Fuchsia's home screen and those of more traditional operating systems is the complete lack of apps: There's no dock, no desktop icons, and no launcher.

What is there, however, is Google's famous search bar — and in this alpha version of Fuchsia it doesn't search the web, but rather the computer itself, including apps.

The apps don't actually work — they're just image placeholders showing mockups — but they go full screen and show a differently coloured strip at the top.

There's also multitasking.

Ron Amadeo/ArsTechnica
Google first introduced multitasking with Android 6.0 Marshmallow back in 2016, so it would only make sense that a new OS — meant to run on widescreen computers — does the same.

You can snap two apps' windows together, and there's even a "tab mode" that merges two apps in a window as if they were two browser tabs you can easily switch between.


Closing an app will populate the home screen.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
The small dot indicator at the bottom can be tapped or clicked to go back to the home screen, but doing so from an app will immediately send that app to the app switcher.

Unlike traditional desktop operating systems, the switcher is not a dock-like bar at the bottom, but a full-blown "river" of apps that are stacked at the top in reverse-chronological order.

You can scroll through the river.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
Scroll up and all your previously used apps will appear. In this, Fuchsia resembles mobile operating systems a lot.


Tapping the Fuchsia symbol in the middle will open a settings-like panel.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
The settings panel is pretty barebones in this build, with just a few sliders for volume and brightness and some toggles that look just like Android's.

You can also read a string that says "yard-polar-royal-crust" in the middle, but we're not exactly sure what that is.

The build fully supports phone mode.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
As we said, Fuchsia is a multi-platform-designed OS.

It can dynamically switch between phone and tablet/laptop mode; some apps and mockups support phone mode, some don't, but generally speaking the OS seems to be built to be truly versatile.


Apps, using Material Design's principles, adapt to the screen.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
Google first launched Material Design back in 2014, and the universal design guidebook had flexibility as one of its main pillars.

Apps automatically adapt to the screen size, and change the user interface (UI) accordingly.

There is phone mode, desktop mode, but also tablet mode.

Mitch Blevins/YouTube
The build has support for a "tablet" mode, too, which also works as the horizontal version of the phone mode.

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[mojito]

Fucksia? What a dumb name. It dead before it started.

 

[Froggy]

Yes why FuckSial?

 

[tun_dr_m]

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/

Google is Dotard to give this type of name.

Is Google smoking pod like Dotard Trump?

 

[kelton65]

Google likely created this new OS without any use of the Java code to prevent any more lawsuit from Oracle.

 

[eatshitndie]

the mountain range on the screen wallpaper is a 69% copycat of the apple macbook's default yosemite wallpaper. it's 69% because it's a different mountain range, but it is still a mountain range with snow on it. this yosemite shot below is my default macbook wallpaper. whatever apple does, google will either follow or copy. the joke around the google campus is that 96% of google employees use the apple macbook pro for their work. the paltry remnants use chromebook and pixelbook as they have little to no choice since they belong to the chromebook and pixelbook dev teams. when out of sight from their labs they still use the apple macbook for their work. any google employee who carries a chromebook in the open gets laughed at by fellow google employees. not fake news.

 

[taksinloong]

the mountain range on the screen wallpaper is a 69% copycat of the apple macbook's default yosemite wallpaper. it's 69% because it's a different mountain range, but it is still a mountain range with snow on it. this yosemite shot below is my default macbook wallpaper. whatever apple does, google will either follow or copy. the joke around the google campus is that 96% of google employees use the apple macbook pro for their work. the paltry remnants use chromebook and pixelbook as they have little to no choice since they belong to the chromebook and pixelbook dev teams. when out of sight from their labs they still use the apple macbook for their work. any google employee who carries a chromebook in the open gets laughed at by fellow google employees. not fake news.

Yosemite pics who don't have. I went there 3 times in different seasons, Autumn winter spring all pics I got. Scenery photos how can say copycat?

When I was snapping photos there, there were so many other cameras in front + behind + left + right of me, all snapping happily and our photos may just look identical. Not just Yosemite, it is everywhere. I drove to many scenic vista points and stop for photography, there are always so many like me with tripod and cameras.

The most typical are Grand Canyon & Niagara Falls, tripods & cameras are all squeezed up at the tight spot for same best scene angle. KNN I had to wait for a spot after the others were done shooting.

 

[bushtucker]

Fuck-sia.

nice name for an O/S.

well done, Google.

 

[Think_PAP]

Google likely created this new OS without any use of the Java code to prevent any more lawsuit from Oracle.

Killing Java is a good idea, I support it. Java VM is inefficient poor performance. Waste CPU power & memory.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Good news. Microsoft and Java can be history.

 

[syed putra]

Good news. Microsoft and Java can be history.

Cannot be. Both google and microsoft ceo are indians.they will gang up and kill apple first, before they kill off those silly china smartphones.

 

[tanwahtiu]

You are off topic.

Typical m&d IQ lower than woman down blouse.

Cannot be. Both google and microsoft ceo are indians.they will gang up and kill apple first, before they kill off those silly china smartphones.