Check Root Access with Xamarin.Android

Hey today i want to share with you a simple method to check if the device has a Root Access its very useful if you want to use a low level resources from your android device

And here's the little class ExecuteAsRootBase.cs

using System;
using Java.Lang;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace RootAccess
{
 public static class ExecuteAsRootBase
 {
  public static bool canRunRootCommands()
  {
   bool retval = false;
   Process suProcess;
   try
   {
    suProcess = Runtime.GetRuntime().Exec("su");
    var os = new Java.IO.DataOutputStream(suProcess.OutputStream);
    var osRes = new Java.IO.DataInputStream(suProcess.InputStream);
    if (null != os && null != osRes)
    {
     os.WriteBytes("id\n");
     os.Flush();
     string currUid = osRes.ReadLine();
     bool exitSu = false;
     if (null == currUid)
     {
      retval = false;
      exitSu = false;
      Console.WriteLine("Can't get root access or denied by user");
     }
     else if (true == currUid.Contains("uid=0"))
     {
      retval = true;
      exitSu = true;
      Console.WriteLine("Root access granted");
     }
     else
     {
      retval = false;
      exitSu = true;
      Console.WriteLine("Root access rejected: " + currUid);
     }

     if (exitSu)
     {
      os.WriteBytes("exit\n");
      os.Flush();
     }
    }
   }
   catch (Java.Lang.Exception e)
   {
    retval = false;
    Console.WriteLine("Root access rejected [" + e.Class.Name + "] : " + e.Message);
   }

   return retval;
  }
 }
}

Now after this you can check the access with this code and also if are sure that you have root access now you can run low level unix commands:

bool rootaccess = ExecuteAsRootBase.canRunRootCommands();
if(rootaccess){
 Java.Lang.Runtime.GetRuntime().Exec ("su -c" + "command to exec");
}

Theres is all for today you access to the full code source at my github:

https://github.com/AlejandroRuiz/Mono/tree/master/RootAccess

Happy Code