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no. it's not a rewrite of android, or (at this point) android-compatible in any way.

it's a brand new operating system that google is experimenting with.

It will need some form of compatibility to get a foothold in the market, though.

From what I can tell, the compatibility plan is to market flutter/dart as a cross-platform development toolkit for Android and iOS.

Fuchsia won't run android apps, but fuchsia apps will run on Android and iOS.

There is some signal[1] that maybe Fuchsia as an OS will support Android apps out of the box. As I'm sure we both know though, ANYTHING can happen between now and the ship date.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2018/04/26/fuchsia-android-runtime-ap...

If you check the Zircon repo, you will see that they are backing in a linux virtualization layer in the kernel, so i imagine they will use that to bootstrap android linux apps in Fuchsia as a staging process, until android apps are completely native in a second phase.

Chrome OS already runs Android, so it would be a matter of stitching the Chrome os shell into Fuchsia to have both running in Fuchsia. First with virtualization of Linux, and later without it.

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