Rooting Android from Scratch

About the keynote speaker

John Wu
Magisk Creator, CA, USA

John is the creator of Magisk, the current state-of-the art rooting solution for Android.

Magisk is a suite of open source tools/programs enabling power users to customize their Android devices. It enables root access to apps, provides an easy plug-and-play framework for modules to modify files on read-only partitions, and has builtin anti-detection to bypass root/system integrity checks.

Abstract

This presentation aims to cover all aspects of developing a root solution for Android, including the history of rooting, challenges along the way, and how modern Android architecture impact the design of rooting.