AsteroidOS


AsteroidOS is an open source operating system designed for smartwatches. It is available as a firmware replacement for some Android Wear devices. The motto for the AsteroidOS project is "Hack your wrist."
Wareable.com reviewed version 1.0 and gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars.

Software Architecture

AsteroidOS is built like an embedded Linux distribution with OpenEmbedded. It works on top of the Linux kernel and the systemd service manager. AsteroidOS also includes various mobile Linux middlewares originally developed for Mer and Nemo Mobile such as and .
The user interface is completely written with the Qt5 framework. Applications are coded in QML with graphic components coming from Qt Quick and . An SDK with a cross-compilation toolchain integrated to Qt Creator can be generated from OpenEmbedded for easier development.
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.
AsteroidOS offers Bluetooth Low Energy synchronization capabilities with the daemon running on top of BlueZ5. A reference client named is available for Android users.

Shipped Applications

As of the 1.0 release, the following applications are shipped and pre-installed by default in AsteroidOS: