AsteroidOS

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AsteroidOS
AsteroidOS logo.svg
AsteroidOS - Watchface-default.png
AsteroidOS 1.0 default watchface
Developer Florent Revest [1] and the AsteroidOS community
Written in Qt/QML
OS family Unix-like
Working stateActive
Source model Open source [2]
Marketing target Smartwatch
Official website asteroidos.org

AsteroidOS is an open source operating system designed for smartwatches. [3] [4] It is available as a firmware replacement for some Android Wear devices. [5] The motto for the AsteroidOS project is "Free your wrist." [6]

Contents

Wareable.com reviewed version 1.0 and gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars. [7]

Software Architecture

AsteroidOS is built like an embedded Linux distribution with OpenEmbedded. [8] It works on top of the Linux kernel and the systemd service manager. [9] AsteroidOS also includes various mobile Linux middlewares originally developed for Mer and Nemo Mobile such as lipstick and MCE. [10]

The user interface is completely written with the Qt5 framework. [8] [11] Applications are coded in QML with graphic components coming from Qt Quick and QML-Asteroid. An SDK with a cross-compilation toolchain integrated to Qt Creator can be generated from OpenEmbedded for easier development. [12]

Asteroid-launcher is a Wayland compositor and customizable home screen managing applications, watchfaces, notifications and quick settings. Asteroid-launcher runs on top of the libhybris compatibility layer to make use of Bionic GPU drivers. [13]

AsteroidOS offers Bluetooth Low Energy synchronization capabilities with the asteroid-btsyncd daemon running on top of BlueZ5. [14] A reference client named AsteroidOS Sync is available for Android users. [14] [15] There is also a Companion App for Sailfish OS(Starship) and one for Ubuntu Touch(Telescope), but it has not yet been updated to the current release of Ubuntu Touch. An app for Linux-based smartphones like the Librem 5 distributed by Purism is also in the making(Buran), but cannot be used due to a currently still unfixed bug in QT5.

Shipped Applications

As of the 1.1 nightly release, the following applications are shipped and pre-installed by default in AsteroidOS: [16]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "AsteroidOS is an Open Source OS for Smartwatches". xda-developers. 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  2. ↑ "Licenses – AsteroidOS". asteroidos.org. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  3. ↑ "An open-source alternative to Android Wear OS for smartwatches emerges".
  4. ↑ "AsteroidOS: An Open Source Alternative to Android Wear". 1 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Install – AsteroidOS".
  6. ↑ "AsteroidOS Homepage".
  7. ↑ "AsteroidOS review". Wareable. June 19, 2018.
  8. 1 2 Brown, Eric (May 23, 2018). "AsteroidOS and OpenWatch Aim to Open Up Smartwatch Market".
  9. ↑ "Boot Process – AsteroidOS". asteroidos.org. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  10. ↑ "AsteroidOS/meta-asteroid". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  11. ↑ "qtcon: QtCon Program". conf.qtcon.org. Archived from the original on 2016-12-08. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  12. ↑ "Creating an Asteroid App – AsteroidOS". asteroidos.org. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  13. ↑ Prakash, Abhishek (20 January 2016). "AsteroidOS: An Open Source Smartwatch Operating System - It's FOSS".
  14. 1 2 "Wear OS alternative AsteroidOS is available for several smartwatches". May 16, 2018.
  15. ↑ "AsteroidOS Sync - F-Droid". f-droid.org. Retrieved 2016-12-25.
  16. ↑ Revest, Florent (2018-05-15). "AsteroidOS 1.0 released - AsteroidOS". asteroidos.org. Retrieved 2018-05-15.


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