Since 2017, we know that the giant Google is working on a brand new operating system for mobile, in “secrecy”, bearing the name of Fuchsia. Only, these last months allowed us to know a little more about the future OS, as well as its compatibilities.
Today, we learn that the firm is working on the possibility of running Android and Linux applications natively.
Google is working on the compatibility of Android and Linux apps
According to our colleagues from the 9To5Google site, the Mountain View firm is working on future compatibilities with its new Fuchsia mobile operating system. One of the developers of the OS suggests that it could “run unmodified versions of Linux programs”.
We, therefore, imagine that the Fuchsia system could allow the use of both Android and Linux applications, a bit like what ChromeOS currently offers. It remains to be seen how Google will put this in place, but new details should soon arrive. The developer is betting on the use of a Starnix virtual machine:
Starnix will serve as the compatibility layer, translating queries from Linux client programs to the appropriate Fuchsia subsystem. Android apps contain code modules that have been compiled for Linux. In order to run them on Fuchsia, we need to be able to run the code without modifying it.