New details have emerged about the development of the Aluminium operating system, which Google is advancing for laptops, mini-PCs, and tablets as part of the plan to merge the Android and Chrome OS platforms. In a transcription of a Google representative's speech at a court hearing related to the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google, it was mentioned that support for Chromebook devices running ChromeOS will last until 2034, with the first mass products on the Aluminium platform planned for 2028. Meanwhile, test solutions based on Aluminium are set to be published by the end of this year.
Aluminium primarily utilizes the architecture and components of the Android platform, while the interface is similar to the desktop mode being developed in Android 16, allowing for multitasking with multiple application windows akin to a traditional desktop environment. Additionally, the platform also involves specific system services, applications, firmware elements, background processes, and libraries from ChromeOS, as well as the application launcher interface (Launcher) adapted from Chrome OS. The Linux kernel, GKI modules (Generic Kernel Image), hardware interaction components (HAL), Android Runtime, Android API, and several system background processes and libraries from Android are also involved.
Source: opennet.ru
