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

Two additional ideas, if you want to check if a device is root capable from your app:

1. Check for the existing of the 'su' binary: run "which su" from Runtime.getRuntime().exec()
2. Look for the SuperUser.apk in /system/app/Superuser.apk location