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

Forget all that detecting root apps and su binaries. Check for the root daemon process. This can be done from the terminal and you can run terminal commands within an app. Try this one-liner.

if [ ! -z "$(/system/bin/ps -A | grep -v grep | grep -c daemonsu)" ]; then echo "device is rooted"; else echo "device is not rooted"; fi

You don't need root permission to achieve this either.