See the Google SafetyNet helper docs.Rooting in Android is like Jail breaking for Apple iOS. Scott Alexander-Bown's SafetyNet Helper library - coupled with server side validation this is one of the best root detection approaches.Tim Strazzere's Anti emulator checks project.Eric Gruber's - Android Root Detection Techniques article.

Kevin Kowalewski and others from this popular StackOverflow post.

If you have one please do send us a pull request. There must be more root checks to make this more complete. Enjoy! And please do feedback to us if your tests produce different results. The sample app is published on Google play to allow you to quickly and easier test the library. so files are also distributed in this repository for those who cannot compile using the NDK for some reason. The native library in this application will now be built via Gradle and the latest Android Studio without having to resort to the command line. Implementation 'com.scottyab:rootbeer-lib:0.1.0'

RootCloak Plus (Cydia) requires Cydia Substrate.

However Rootbeer was defeated when using a combination of the root cloakers activated at the same time. In 2015 we successfully tested Rootbeer and it flagged an indication of root when testing with the following root cloak apps. Remember root=god, so there's no 100% guaranteed way to check for root! treat this as an indication of root.

Plus as hackday style project we wanted to see if we could beat the root cloakers at the time in 2015. However we appreciate it can be useful to have an indication your app is running on a rooted device. We love root! both Scott and Mat (the creators) own and use rooted devices (albeit not as daily driver). Native checks are typically harder to cloak, so some root cloak apps just block the loading of native libraries that contain certain keywords. We call through to our native root checker to run some of its own checks. These are the current checks/tricks we are using to give an indication of root. We've scoured the internets for different methods of answering that age old question. A tasty root checker library and sample app.

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