The interface is built around a card-based system like Google Now. The difference being in that instead of showing only relevant information, it shows you apps. It also reminds us of the recent apps screen on Android, only this one looks a lot cooler. It also shows some information based cards like Google Now. Armadillo allows for these cards to be dragged around and to be used in split-screen mode or a tabbed interface. When and if Fuchsia OS does become official, things may have changed drastically, or not at all.
You can get a taste of what Google is doing behind the scenes. The UI is not as smooth, but that is expected since it is at such an early stage of development. It just came out of a code-based UI after all. What do you think of this new design direction Google is taking? For now, there are no real apps, however, and selecting any of the items from the scrolling list will just bring up placeholders. What is interesting though, is that you can already benefit from the impressive multitasking features.
If you drag one app onto another, for instance, you will then be given the option to enter a split-screen mode with those two apps taking up the top and bottom portions as per your liking.
And if you then return home which you do by tapping a central dot at the bottom of the screen , you can drag a third or even fourth app into the group in order to use them all at once. You can also set the layout up to have just one app take up the bulk of the screen with tabs to switch to others that you are using along the top. I like the look of the multitasking features a lot, though I personally find the idea of scrolling through all my apps in a list to be a bit off-putting.
Maybe in future Fuchsia will support custom launchers like Android. The idea is presumably that this will work a little like the Continuum feature on Windows, so that the UI will switch depending on the size of the display running the OS.
Capybara is designed for keyboard and mouse and looks a lot more like Chrome OS with a taskbar, action button, and options in the corner. It appears that apps will run in draggable windows. You can check out what the Capybara UI may look like in the image above, created by year-old enthusiast and prodigy Noah Cain. Keep in mind though that this is speculative, very basic, and highly likely to change as development continues. You can also check out what Fuchsia OS looks like running on a Pixelbook at the link.
If Google introduces Fuchsia slowly in the smart-home market where early-adopters dwell and then gradually makes the transition to our larger devices, then it could work. This is especially true if they work hard to support cross-compatibility with Android and Chrome apps and if they keep the UI at least somewhat recognizable.
What do you think Google will do with Fuchsia? What would you want from a potential successor to Android? Let us know in the comments down below. What is Google Fuchsia? Is this the new Android? Fuchsia is a mysterious new OS that Google has been working on for the last couple of years. Check out 9to5Google on YouTube for more news:. Kyle is an author and researcher for 9to5Google, with special interests in Made by Google products, Fuchsia, and Stadia.
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