SuperSU is a discontinued proprietary Android application that can keep track of the root permissions of apps, after the Android device has been
rooted
In vascular plants, the roots are the organs of a plant that are modified to provide anchorage for the plant and take in water and nutrients into the plant body, which allows plants to grow taller and faster. They are most often below the sur ...
. SuperSU is generally installed through a custom recovery such as
TWRP. SuperSU includes the option to undo the rooting. SuperSU cannot always reliably hide the rooting. The project includes a
wrapper library
Wrapper libraries (or library wrappers) consist of a thin layer of code (a " shim") which translates a library's existing interface into a compatible interface. This is done for several reasons:
* To refine a poorly designed or complicated interfa ...
written in
Java
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called
libsuperuser for different ways of calling the
su binary.
History
Since 2012, SuperSU app is all maintained by the original author Chainfire himself.
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In 2014, support for Android 5.0 was added.
In September 2015, SuperSU was acquired by a Chinese company called Coding Code Mobile Technology LLC (CCMT), raising concerns about privacy, but Chainfire promised he would closely auditing the changes that CCMT made.][
In 2018, the application was removed from the Google ]Play Store
Google Play, also known as the Google Play Store and formerly the Android Market, is a digital distribution service operated and developed by Google. It serves as the official app store for certified devices running on the Android operating sys ...
and the original developer Chainfire announced their departure of SuperSU development, although others continue to maintain it. As of 2018, many users already switched to Magisk.
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Android (operating system)
Rooting (Android)
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