Root Checker Extension v1

[Pavitra Golchha]

I'm excited to release my second extension: Root Checker

This extension allows you to:

• check if phone is rooted

• execute Shell commands

• display executed commands' output

This extension unlocks a variety of new things and it can prove to be very useful for the community.

Please provide feedbacks. I have successfully tested on my friend's rooted phone.

(isRooted has been updated to IsRooted as suggested by @Taifun)

MORE FEATURES COMING SOON!

Download Extension

• Version 2: RootChecker_v2.aix (6.8 KB)
  
• Version 1: RootChecker_v1.aix (5.0 KB)
  

It's always good to be up-to-date with the latest extension. But I have provided download links for old versions as well.

Example

• AIA (version 2): (will be available soon)
• AIA (version 1): Root_v1.aia (6.6 KB)
  

Preview

 

For latest info and support about this extension, I'd encourage you to look here.

[JSC TUTOS]

Tengo un móbil no rooteado, y me dice que no está rooteado, asi que de momento bien, luego lo probraré con uno rooteado a ver que pasa

[Taifun]

great to see you working on something useful now...

keep up the good work!

Taifun

[Pavitra Golchha]

Would you help me with my code?

I'm trying to make an extension which executes shell commands. I'm stuck at common Java errors which I can't figure out.

[JSC TUTOS]

en el rooteado si que me sale que esta rooteado, asi que si que funciona!!

gracias por tu aporte!

[Taifun]

Would you help me with my code?

sure

if I know the answer... ;-)

for question about working with the App Inventor sources please ask in the Open Source group here https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/app-inventor-open-source-dev

Taifun

[Taifun]

@Pavitra: App Inventor uses some naming conventions, see also the document How to add a Component, which is the camel case notation, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_case

for Properties, methods and events, UpperCamelCase is used
for input parameter lowerCamelCase is used

example:

which means, if you like to follow these standards (which is the recommendation), then the correct method name would be IsRooted (first letter = capital letter)

and if you want to provide a more complete method to check if the device is rooted, then you might want to take a look at these stackoverflow answers http://stackoverflow.com/a/8097801/1545993 ...

Taifun

[Pavitra]

Thanks @Taifun for informing me that. I have updated my extension and also added "Execute Shell commands" method and event.

[Abraham Getzler]

Is the version in your first post current?

I tried it in the stock AI2 emulator and it said it was rooted,

but no shell commands came back with results.

See attached.

ABG

[Pavitra]

@Taifun suggested me to run "Execute" method asynchronously, so I've been working on it to fix this.

[Pavitra]

@ABG I just built the new extension v3 for testing. Would you like test it? http://community.thunkable.com/t/testers-needed-for-root-checker-extension/1680?u=pavi2410

[Abraham Getzler]

I tried a few user level commands in the stock AI2 emulator ...

ls  works, but I find it really bare bones (no -? or -al option from my unix days); I had to add slashes at the end of its directory names to go further down them. i.e.

ls sdcard/Appinventor/assets/  to see my Companion cruft in the emulator.  No file attributes, no create or modify dates.  But still usable.

date works.  

cat works on txt files, to standard output.

rm works.

No wild cards are accepted.

No error message output.

No error codes.

su       gave no response

su ls   gave no response.

To summarize, at the minimum there's enough here to write a directory explorer and cleanup utility.

[Abraham Getzler]

If you are extending the functionality of this, consider adding two more outputs to the event,

in addition to the commandOutput:

errorCode  (0 = okay, other = error)

errorOutput  (secondary output stream of error text)

(This is based on my experience with unix shells.  I don't know if Android supplies these.)

ABG

[Pavitra]

Thanks @ABG for pointing out the errors.

As a Windows user, I do not know much about Linux commands. I only know what codecademy.com taught me - just the basics. So, I did not test it completely. I will try to implement the things you suggested.