Once in a while we hear bits and pieces about Google's Fuchsia, but it appears that the search giant is really prepping up to push development of the next-gen mobile operating system. Up and running right now is Fuchsia.dev, a Google-owned domain, which now has official documentation posted by Google itself.
This isn't the first time Fuchsia.dev went live: Google allowed a peep after I/O, though at that time it had no real content. This morning, the Fuchsia community on Reddit noted that the site is live once again with a new look and lots of official Fuchsia documentation.
The new website is a bit stylized than before and it doesn't even have the Fuchsia logo anywhere. But what it lacks in design makes up for in content. The new iteration of Fuchsia.dev is a mixture of all current documentation from the Fuchsia source code's "docs" folder, documentation specific to the Zircon kernel, and reference information about things accessible via FIDL.
That being said, those who have peeked this info before may not find much new to learn on the site, although it's now more convenient as it's compiled into one place. Perhaps the best part of the site right now is that you can now search content.
In the near future, we expect more content on Fuchsia.dev. Word is the team behind has already designed a semi-public reference info for both the Rust and Dart programming languages.
Fucshia.dev can be installed as a PWA on mobile devices, serving as a handy reference for OS documentation on the fly. There's also an option to sign in with your Google account, though we're not sure what that feature is for as of writing. We're speculating that this could be used to keep certain documentation private for users in the future.
Another thing that's unclear as of now is the site's sudden availability. Over a month and a half after Google's biggest developer event of the year seems like a strange time to provide convenient access to information about Fuchsia. It's also not easy for someone outside of Google to design and test real Fuchsia applications, which makes the documentation not quite as useful to the developer community.
What we know though is that Google has made it possible for Fuchsia to run in the official Android Studio Emulator, and with the launch of Fuchsia.dev, it's possible we'll be seeing the OS reach app developers sooner than expected.
