This is because you need to start the emulator with a writable filesystem. You may encounter that you canвЂ™t write the file system or something. You already have root access and you can do whatever you want in your adb shell. This is because in a non-production image you already have root access by just issuing: adb rootДЄnd thatвЂ™s it. The way we interact with the вЂњrootвЂќ capabilities of a phone are different in a emulated phone if you compare it with a physical one. That is because any Android image with GP installed is considered a production image, and therefore you canвЂ™t have root access by default.

If you just try to run your android emulator with an image that has Google Play installed, you wonвЂ™t be able to call adb root. Most real world application need all the Google services activated in the phone to work.

Root access to an emulated android device.

And I donвЂ™t have any android phone to spare and try to root it. This post comes into existence because I needed to see the encrypted network traffic of an android application that wasnвЂ™t available in my country. Do you want to start reverse engineering some android App? And you donвЂ™t know where to start? Well, this is the perfect post for you.

Root android emulator mac