Google’s New Fuchsia OS: Download And Build From Source Code

Google is currently working on a new operating system, code name Fuchsia OS. The project was started in 2016 and its source code was made available on the Fuchsia official website in 2019 as well as the documentation. The Fuchsia project is built on top of the Zircon kernel.

The Google Nest Hub is the first product that runs on Fuchsia OS. The source code of Fuchsia is available to download for the public (more specifically for the developer’s community).

In this article, we will talk about the Fuchsia operating system, why Google is developing it?, will it replace Android? and the step-by-step process of downloading and building google’s new fuchsia operating system using the source code. The reason behind writing this article is to help developers set up the development environment for Fuchsia correctly so that they can play with the operating system as well as if the project feels interesting to them then they can make some meaningful contributions towards the growth of the project.

There is no doubt that the Fuchsia documentation itself is easy to get through. But there are some things in the documentation which might be confusing or difficult to understand for beginners developers and that’s where this article will come into the picture. You can perform the steps mentioned below either…