Been using it as well. It requires practice, but it does feel like a better typing experience for a mobile device.

Difficult to say right now. While it’s bragged that AI can already “create” games and “webpages”. Current approaches rely heavily on human prompting and trial and error. Plus said dev AIs work best when creating common, simple, short projects. The AI will just auto complete stuff, and if its wrong, well it can’t tell the difference. Actual programs created by humans are multitudes of machines working together in perfect sync. It involves progressive iteration and refactor, as well as requiring many types of languages, data, images, sound, API use, organization, planning, and references (often from closed source programs) if it has any hopes of working.

Something as ambitious as an OS? Given the size of the task, you might as well wait for the singularity when all bets are off.

Displaying images, truly a technological breakthrough for the modern era!

Pardon me if I may inquire, but how exactly does Xiaomi’s gallery fail, at being a gallery application? Morbid curiosity if you will.

While I’m not experienced enough to explain the full development stack of an OS. Let me throw my two cents.

It typically goes by writing changes. If its superficial ones, like modern UI in Windows 11, then all they need to do is relaunch explorer/the app etc. Every time they make a change in the code, they then build and try it out.

If its a more internal change, deep into the OS. Typically written in C or another low level language. Then its easier to test the changes in a virtual machine, you write your code, compile, build. And then load it up in the virtual machine to see if the OS doesn’t crash and burn.

Later, after it gets past quality control in the company, (but most often these versions sit in beta for a while to catch problems). It then gets put into the Update servers and rolled out in bulk for mass destribution.

Do note, updates don’t need to include the entire OS. Just packages including the file changes as well as general update busywork.

PS: If anyone replies, feel free to correct me. Details may be sketchy but this is the short of it.

Oh this is is quite interesting. Quite interesting indeed! I approve of this. Seems like it may be exactly what I was looking for.

Much appreciated!