# Root Detection

To protect users, mobile application have a protection layer from rooted devices which will prevent users from using the mobile application on a rooted device.

Root detection can be bypassed through patching the smali code and by using frida to hook the root detection functions.

I have explained root detection bypass in this blog by using the 2 methods.

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