SuperSU

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SuperSU
Original author(s) Chainfire
Developer(s) Chainfire and CCMT
Final release
2.82.1 [1] / 2 January 2018;7 years ago (2018-01-02)
Operating system Android
Website www.supersu.com at the Wayback Machine (archived November 3, 2019)

SuperSU is a discontinued proprietary Android application that can keep track of the root permissions of apps, after the Android device has been rooted. [2] [3] SuperSU is generally installed through a custom recovery such as TWRP. [4] SuperSU includes the option to undo the rooting. [5] SuperSU cannot always reliably hide the rooting. [6] The project includes a wrapper library written in Java called libsuperuser for different ways of calling the su binary. [7]

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History

Since 2012, SuperSU app is all maintained by the original author Chainfire himself. [8]

In 2014, support for Android 5.0 was added. [9]

In September 2015, SuperSU was acquired by a Chinese company called Coding Code Mobile Technology LLC (CCMT), raising concerns about privacy and reliability, but Chainfire promised he was closely auditing the changes that CCMT made. Most Android users do not recommend using it now. [10]

In 2018, the application was removed from the Google Play Store [11] and the original developer Chainfire announced their departure of SuperSU development, although others continue to maintain it. [12] As of 2025, many users already switched to Magisk or KernelSU. [13]

References

  1. ↑ "Download SuperSU APKs for Android". APKMirror. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
  2. ↑ Immler, Christian (2016). Android Hacking Ihr Smartphone kann mehr, als Sie denken: Hacken Sie Ihr Gerät, bevor es andere tun ([1. Aufl.] ed.). Haar bei München. p. 54. ISBN   978-3-645-60378-2. OCLC   903695577.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ↑ "SuperSU for Android Manages Root Permissions So You Don't Have To". Lifehacker . 21 March 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  4. ↑ Zak, Robert (July 6, 2018). "How to root your Android phone using Windows 10 and TWRP Recovery". TechRadar . Archived from the original on 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  5. ↑ Wallen, Jack (October 30, 2014). "Pro tip: How to unroot your Android device so you can update". TechRepublic. Archived from the original on 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  6. ↑ Summerson, Cameron (3 July 2017). "How to Unroot Your Android Phone". How-To Geek. Archived from the original on 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  7. ↑ Elenkov, Nikolay (2015). Android Security Internals: an In-Depth Guide to Android's Security Architecture. San Francisco, CA: No Starch Press. p. 374. ISBN   978-1-59327-581-5. OCLC   896723300.
  8. ↑ Grush, Andrew (September 30, 2015). "Chainfire handing over ownership of SuperSU to new company". Android Authority. Archived from the original on January 28, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Nederlandse root-app SuperSU krijgt ondersteuning voor Android 5.0". Tweakers (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  10. ↑ JC Torres (October 4, 2017). "Chainfire is retiring from SuperSU development". SlashGear.com. Archived from the original on May 16, 2022. Retrieved April 15, 2023.
  11. ↑ Davenport, Corbin (2018-10-02). "SuperSU has been removed from the Play Store". Android Police. Archived from the original on 2022-12-23. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  12. ↑ "Chainfire, creator of SuperSU, announces end of development for his root apps". Android Police. 2018-05-05. Archived from the original on 2021-09-11. Retrieved 2021-09-11.
  13. ↑ Rahman, Mishaal (2018-05-05). "End of an era: Chainfire is halting development on all root-related apps". XDA Developers. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
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