New details about the development of Google's Aluminum operating system for laptops, mini PCs, and tablets, in line with its plan to merge the Android and Chrome OS platforms, have been leaked. A transcript of a Google representative's testimony at a court hearing related to the US Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google mentions that support for Chromebooks running ChromeOS will continue until 2034, with the first mass-market products based on the Aluminum platform planned for 2028. Test solutions based on Aluminum are expected to begin appearing later this year.
Aluminum primarily utilizes the Android platform architecture and components, and its interface is similar to the desktop mode developed in Android 16 for large screens, allowing for simultaneous operation of multiple application windows similar to a traditional desktop environment. The platform also utilizes individual system services, applications, firmware elements, background processes, and libraries from ChromeOS, as well as the Launcher interface ported from Chrome OS. Android components include the Linux kernel, GKI modules (Generic Kernel Image), hardware access control (HAL), Android Runtime, Android API, and some system background processes and libraries.
Source: opennet.ru
