Comment by lifty
4 hours ago
Can you give more details about it being used in Android? I thought they started using it in some small devices like nest but haven’t heard anything about Android
4 hours ago
Can you give more details about it being used in Android? I thought they started using it in some small devices like nest but haven’t heard anything about Android
It’s about to turn up inside Android running in a VM [1] but it was less clear exactly for what purpose.
My theory is that this is essentially a long term project to bring the core of Chrome OS and Android to rely on Fuschia for its core which gives them syscall level compatibility with what they both use at the moment and that they would both essentially sit as products on top of that.
This is essentially the exact strategy they used if I remember correctly with the Nest devices where they swapped out the core and left the product on top entirely unchanged. Beyond that in a longer term scenario we might also just see a Fuchsia OS as a combined mobile / desktop workstation setup and I think part of that is also why we are seeing ChromeOS starting to take a dependency on Android’s networking stack as well right now.
[1] https://www.androidauthority.com/microfuchsia-on-android-345...