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<\/a><\/div><\/div>It’s not a secret that despite its omnipresence at the mobile devices\n front, Android OS has its own share of problems, both as an end user \nbut also as a developer platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fragmentation of version releases and their cumbersome updating, \ninstability, security and privacy are the concerns plaguing the end \nuser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Developing for the platform is not a smooth operation either. Easily introduced memory leaks, dubious Fragment and Activity handling, leaky asynchronous programming, transaction exceptions, cumbersome handling of orientation changes, the presence of Listeners everywhere, fragmentation in the support library and SDK’s, deprecation of or changes in APIs etc make\u00a0 building apps for Android a difficult proposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Google had to do something about it, and did. It endorsed Kotlin<\/a> as its base language together with totally overhauling the ways you develop by introducing the groundbreaking Jetpack ecosystem. This meant, however, that you have to unlearn most of what you understand and adapt to the new ways by re-training. This, of course, is a huge ask, given the little available time devs have, their established mental model of the platform and the courage to go through the learning process again. A lot of baggage if you ask me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Then came the shift of focus to ChromeOS, again at this year’s I\/O, \neven branding it as an all-encompassing OS which runs on Chromebooks, \ntablets and laptops. More on that in Google Promotes ChromeOS at Google I\/O<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And now Fuchsia. The plans are not fully disclosed, but at least we know that Google is so serious about it that it just released a developer site about it akin to the Android Developer portal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Glancing over it, you gather that the now supported languages are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n No Kotlin for the moment, maybe because it’s too new, but no old time, venerable, Java either?<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also find that Fuchsia is not based on the Linux kernel but on the Zircon microkernel, which means not only that it targets portable devices with low footprints, but also that it breaks ties with Linux-based Android. More info about it on the now official portal for Fuchia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All in all, Google’s strategic planning and handling of products like ChromeOS, Android and Fuchsia starts to resemble the confusion of Microsoft’s – you know the jumbled attempts around WinRT, Win32, UWP, Windows Mobile and now regarding .NET standard, .NET core, .NET framework etc. <\/p>\n\n\n\n While Google’s true intentions on Fuchsia, and subsequently on Android and ChromeOS remain to be seen, why do I already smell DEPRECATION all over the place?<\/p>\n\n\n\nMore Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n