{"id":545242,"date":"2026-03-18T20:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545242\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T20:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T20:34:19","slug":"googles-scrapped-fuchsia-ui-revived-as-a-neat-web-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/545242\/","title":{"rendered":"Google’s scrapped Fuchsia UI revived as a neat web app"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Remember Fuchsia? Google\u2019s second OS project has faded into the background, but a neat project revives the \u201cArmadillo\u201d UI that first brought Fuchsia to public attention.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been around a decade<\/a> since word of Google\u2019s work on Fuchsia first surfaced and, way back in 2017, we covered an early look<\/a> at Google\u2019s initial concept<\/a> for a user interface built on Fuchsia. Known as \u201cArmadillo,\u201d the early UI took a totally different approach, with a quick settings hub at the bottom and recent apps above in reverse chronological order.<\/p>\n

Long-time 9to5Google writer Kyle Bradshaw<\/a> was the one who first publicized that UI, and he covered Fuchsia developments for years. Google, though, never really used this \u201cArmadillo\u201d UI, with Fuchsia eventually <\/a>just becoming the backbone of Nest Hub smart displays starting in 2021<\/a> and this UI concept largely scrapped<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s back \u2013 sort of.<\/p>\n

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Ex-Googler James O\u2019 Leary (a lead in Material You) used open source code and the help of AI to recreate Fuchsia\u2019s \u201cArmadillo\u201d UI<\/a> through a web app. Hosted on GitHub<\/a>, the web app brings that early concept back to life. You can play around with the bottom hub as well as the recent apps menu, though there\u2019s not much you can actually do with it. It\u2019s also rather buggy, with the mobile UI especially pretty messy compared to the desktop version (below).<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s a nice throwback to a \u201cwhat might have been\u201d moment in Google\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

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