Google has decided to give a serious blow to anyone who prefers to have a Rooted cell phone. It is going to provide a set of tools for various Apps developers to block any program from running inside a mobile phone equipped with Root.
"But isn't this a practice already used?" you may be wondering: in fact, for some time now there have been various services that use a particular mechanism that blocks the use of any App that is running on a Rooted mobile phone. Too bad, however, that when a law is made there is always deception, and various methods to circumvent this system have been created and put into operation. Special programs, advanced Rooting and modified APKs. Numerous solutions to a single problem, just choose.
The fact is that for Google the Root has now become increasingly harmful. It exposes devices equipped with Android to numerous dangers, makes them less stable… and also less easy to control. In short, legitimate and illegitimate reasons. Thus, at the latest Google I / O, a new version of the system called SafetyNet.
Now, not all the details have been made public, but a particular number of functions are already more than clear: developers can decide to make their Apps invisible in the Play Store if this detects that the mobile has been Rooted. This is only the first level of protection, as a certificate will also be silently installed inside all Android-equipped phones.
This certificate is mainly used to deal with the Play Store and with the program that the developers have decided to make "No-Root". This means that when we find the APK of the program outside the Play Store it will not be guaranteed to install or start. That's right: the program can also refuse the installation, but this function will probably be reserved for Android Nougat ed Android O. In older versions of Android, it will refuse to boot.
Of course there is always some way to find a counter-system, but certainly this new technology will make life more difficult for all Rooters.
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