- In August 2016, media outlets reported on a mysterious source code repository published on GitHub, revealing that Google was developing a new operating system named Fuchsia.
- No official announcement was made, but inspection of the code suggested its capability to run on various devices, including “dash infotainment” systems for cars, embedded devices like traffic lights, digital watches, smartphones, tablets, and PCs.
- Its architecture differs entirely from the Linux-based Android and Chrome OS due to its unique Zircon kernel, formerly named Magenta.
- In May 2017, an online tech news publisher “Ars Technica” wrote about Fuchsia’s new user interface, an upgrade from its command-line interface.
- In January 2018, Google published a guide on how to run Fuchsia on Pixelbooks.
- On July 1, 2019, Google announced the official website of the development project with source code and documentation.
- December 8, 2020, Google announced that it was “expanding Fuchsia’s open-source model” including making mailing lists public, introducing a governance model, publishing a roadmap, and using a public issue tracker.
- In May 2021, Google employees confirmed that it had deployed Fuchsia in the consumer market for the first time, within a software update to the first-generation Google Nest Hub devices that replaces its existing Chromecast-based software.
Just A Claim Not Facts
Whenever we develop an app on Flutter for iOS and Android, it automatically gets uploaded/compatible on the Fuchsia store as well.
By facilitating apps in Fuchsia ecosystem long before it is even made live in the market will ensure that it doesn’t face a death like Windows, which suffered because lack of enough applications.
Google plan with Fuschia is to go beyond the world of smartphones.
Being a cross device operating system, Google will target a much larger audience base through IoT than on its presently concentrated mobile OS market.
TargetPlatform Enum in Flutter Source Code
enum TargetPlatform {
android, fuchsia, iOS, linux, macOS, windows
}