Will Google Fuchsia replace Android?

Fuchsia (Pink + Purple = Fuchsia) is a hybrid and a new operating system that is still very much in development. The entirety of Fuchsia OS is comprised of two distinct but connected user interfaces (UI): a phone-centric one codenamed ‘Armadillo’ and a traditional desktop UI known as ‘Capybara’ internally. Fuchsia is laden with Google’s Material design found all over its Android and Chrome OS products. Every few months we hear a little bit more about Google’s not-so-secret Fuchsia operating system. The project is open source, and first became publicly available on GitHub in August 2016.

 
We expect Google Fuchsia, when it finally comes out, to take over as Google’s singular, united operating system for phones, tablets and laptops.

It is expected that, Fuchsia is going to accomplish much of what Microsoft and Apple already have in Windows 10 and iOS, respectively, but in a very Google way. A report says that since Fuchsia OS was built from a scratch and is not based on Linux like Android, there is no app catalog for it. This also makes software testing difficult on the platform, and to solve this problem, Google is planning to provide support for Android app on the new OS. They are going to do this by integrating ART (Android Runtime).

 
"Fuchsia is one of the many experimental open source projects at Google,” a Google spokesperson said in a statement. “We are not providing additional details about the project at this time.”

Google didn’t bother announcing Fuchsia, but it has talked about the project a few times before. After all, it is being developed in the open, although its importance is often blown out of proportion. Google's Fuchsia OS could start replacing Android in five years.

Fuchsia wants to be the best cross-device OS to date. To achieve this, Fuchsia uses a new tool known as ‘Ledger’ by the GitHub community.


The Fuchsia team comprises of more than 100 engineers and has a main goal - to create a single operating system that could replace Android and Chrome OS, as well as power all of Google’s smart home hardware. There’s even a timeframe - launch a connected home device powered by Fuchsia within three years and replace existing operating systems on larger devices like laptops and phones within five years.