Samir Samat, President of Google for the development of an ecosystem associated with Android, in interview TechRadar He mentioned the intentions to unite Chrome OS and Android into one platform. During communication, Samir asked the journalist why he uses Apple devices, not Android, and what applications he uses on his laptop, explaining what he asks, since Google is going to unite Chrome OS and Android, and he is interested in how people use their laptops.
earlier representatives of Google did not mention plans for the unification of Chrome OS and Android, the information about which in November was unofficially disclosed by some Google employees. The reason for the union mentioned the desire to strengthen competition with the iPad and more efficiently use engineering resources in order not to spray efforts into two operating systems.
Google’s indirect confirmation of the intentions was the work on the translation of the Chromeos systemic environment for the Linux nucleus, frameworks and system components of the Android Platform. At the same time, in the latest issues of the Android platform, the active development of the desktop regime and opportunities for working on devices with large screens began.
The Chromeos operating system resembles in its architecture atomarily updated Linux distributions, uses Linux core with specific patches, system manager Upstart and assembly tools Ebuild/Portage from Gentoo Linux. Despite the fact that the user environment of Chromeos is focused on using a Web browser, and instead of standard programs, a Web applications are involved, the platform includes a full-fledged multi-window interface, a desktop and a taskbar. To launch applications created for Linux and Android, virtual machines are used, launched using a hypervisor crosvm based on Kvm.
by default at Chrome OS fscrypt ), and the system sections are mounted in the only reading mode, are verified according to digital Signatures are also updated atomarly (two root sections, a worker for installing the update that change places). The output to the screen is carried out using the graphic stack Freon (work is underway to switch to the use of Wayland) and the window manager aura . the source code