SuperSU

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SuperSU
Original author(s) Chainfire
Developer(s) Chainfire and CCMT
Final release
2.82.1 [1] / 2 January 2018;6 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, but Chainfire promised he was closely auditing the changes that CCMT made. [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 2018, many users already switched to Magisk. [13]

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  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.
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