Details what is android rooting
Android rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operatingsystem to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's subsystem.
Rooting is often performed with the goal of overcoming limitations that carriers and hardware manufacturers put on some devices,
resulting in the ability to alter or replace system applications and settings, run specialized apps that require
administrator-level permissions, or perform other operations that are otherwise inaccessible to a normal Android user.
On Android, rooting can also facilitate the complete removal and replacement of the device's operating system,
usually with a more recent release of its current operating system.
As Android was derived from the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device is similar in practice to accessing administrative
permissions on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.
"Rooting" vs. "jailbreaking"
However, these are distinct concepts. In the heavily secured iOS world, restrictions prevent
(1) installing or booting into a modified or new operating system (a "locked bootloader" prevents this),
(2) sideloading unsigned applications onto the device is prevented and user-installed apps are
(3) prevented from root permission and run in a secure sandbox. Bypassing all these restrictions together constitute the expansive term "jailbreaking" of Apple devices,
overcoming several types of iOS security features. By contrast, while many Android devices have locked bootloaders, the ability to sideload apps is common and usually permissible
without root permissions. Thus, it is primarily the third aspect of iOS jailbreaking relating to superuser
privileges that correlates to Android rooting.