Rooting Android Emulator

Requirements:

Install the SuperSu app firstly.
- You can do it from the device from , or
- Sideload through adb i.e adb -e install supersu.apk
After installing it, when you run it shows a screen as shown below indicating "There is no SU binary installed..". This error just confirms the device is not yet rooted.

Navigate to the tools folder where Android SDK is installed and open command prompt there.
- On Mac OS: ~/Library/Android/sdk/emulator
Type the following code to accomplish this: emulator -avd {emulator_name} -writable-system

Extract the Recovery flashable.zip (containing the su binaries of different architectures)

Important! Only use the su binary that matches your AVD architecture e.g x86, arm etc.., and note the path where you extracted these binaries.

Make sure you are running adb as root and also you need to remount. Just enter these codes

adb root
adb remount

adb -e push adb -e push UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.82-20170528234214/x64/su /system/xbin/su

Nevermind about my specific location of su binary, any location is okay as long there is no white space

To figure out bin or xbin do in console before:

adb shell ls /system/xbin/su

For emulators running android 5.1 and below use the su and not su.pie

Next let's do a bit of modification of the permissions of su binary. We have to do this in emulator device through adb:

adb -e shell su root cd /system/xbin chmod 06755 su

Take note of su binary path (mine is /system/xbin)

su --install
su --daemon&

Finally turn off selinux through this code: setenforce 0
Open SuperSU app on the Mobile emulator and it may ask to update binaries, you can use Normal method.

If you're experiencing bootloops, rather don't update the binaries, just use it as it is.

Last updated 4 years ago