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AsteroidOS
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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]
Wareable.com reviewed version 1.0 and gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars.[7]
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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.
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Shipped Applications
As of the 1.1 nightly release, the following applications are shipped and pre-installed by default in AsteroidOS:[16]
- Agenda: Provides simple event scheduling capabilities
- Alarm Clock: Makes the watch vibrate at a specific time of day
- Calculator: Allows basic calculations
- Compass: A functional Compass app (only preinstalled on devices with supported sensors)
- Diamonds: A game, which is inspired by 2048.
- Flashlight: A simple flashlight app where the screen acts as a light source.
- Heart Rate: An app for heart-rate-monitor bpm retrieval
- Music: Controls a synchronized device's music player
- Settings: Configures Time, Date, Language, Bluetooth, Brightness, AOD(on supported devices), Nightstand, Wallpapers, Custom Launchers, Watch faces and USB Modes (Charging,ADB, SSH, MTP)
- Stopwatch: Measures an elapsed time
- Timer: Counts down a specified time interval
- Weather: Provides weather forecast for five days
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