Determine if running on a rooted device

Question

My app has a certain piece of functionality that will only work on a device where root is available. Rather than having this feature fail when it is used (and then show an a

Answer 1

If you are already using Fabric/Firebase Crashlytics you can call

CommonUtils.isRooted(context)

This is the current implementation of that method:

public static boolean isRooted(Context context) {
    boolean isEmulator = isEmulator(context);
    String buildTags = Build.TAGS;
    if(!isEmulator && buildTags != null && buildTags.contains("test-keys")) {
        return true;
    } else {
        File file = new File("/system/app/Superuser.apk");
        if(file.exists()) {
            return true;
        } else {
            file = new File("/system/xbin/su");
            return !isEmulator && file.exists();
        }
    }
}