{"id":740380,"date":"2013-03-04T06:27:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betanews.com\/?p=133847"},"modified":"2013-03-04T06:27:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T11:27:27","slug":"official-superuser-app-available-for-rooted-android-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740380","title":{"rendered":"Official Superuser app available for rooted Android devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-133877\" title=\"superuser\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/superuser-300x146.jpg?resize=300%2C146\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" \/>Koushik Dutta, the developer behind Android apps like Carbon, ROM Manager and the popular ClockworkMod custom recovery, has released a new open-source root access management app called Superuser.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the reason for making it open-source, Dutta says that in his opinion a root access management app should be open to \"independent security analysis\" and that \"obscurity (closed source) is not security\". He also places a great deal of value on making the app \"AOSP buildable\" so that developers can include it in custom Android distributions.<\/p>\n<p>But let's see what the new player can do. Superuser is designed as an\u00a0alternative to SuperSU (which is closed-source ) and offers a range of interesting features. The app comes with multiple user support, pin protection, root request timeout, notifications and an UI (User Interface) suited for tablets, among its main features.<\/p>\n<p>Superuser also includes support for manifest permission, logging and per-app configuration. <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-133878\" title=\"superuser screen\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/betanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/superuser-screen-300x188.jpg?resize=300%2C188\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/>Users coming from previous, unofficial, versions of the app will benefit from a higher number of translations, notification after boot for an incompatible su binary, and fixes for \"embarrassing\u00a0spelling mistakes\".<\/p>\n<p>Superuser is available to <a title=\"Superuser\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.koushikdutta.superuser\" >download from Google Play<\/a>. The app requires a rooted Android device in order to function.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=UvZ68g9ZDQk:NkA-x8mxq8M:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.betanews.com\/~ff\/bn?a=UvZ68g9ZDQk:NkA-x8mxq8M:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/bn?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/bn\/~4\/UvZ68g9ZDQk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koushik Dutta, the developer behind Android apps like Carbon, ROM Manager and the popular ClockworkMod custom recovery, has released a new open-source root access management app called Superuser. Explaining the reason for making it open-source, Dutta says that in his opinion a root access management app should be open to &#8220;independent security analysis&#8221; and that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36BC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}