Hello friends! Root Access is not as widely used nowadays as it used to be. But some more advanced apps need more permissions than the system can grant. A middle ground is Shizuku, an app that makes it easy to grant special permissions to other apps without needing to have Root Access on our device. Apps that need or complement Shizuku for some of their functions are becoming more and more common. It is usually present in apps that seek to modify some section of the system. If you have found an app that requires it to work. In this post, we tell how you can install and configure Shizuku on your Android phone. Thus facilitating some functions without having to use ADB commands every time or use Root Access.
How to install Shizuku
Shizuku is a tool that app developers can use to access certain system APIs more easily. In some cases, it serves as an alternative to Root Access, if the only reason such application required Root was to obtain ADB permissions. If you like to experiment with your phone, you may have already come across an application that requires Shizuku to work, usually as an alternative to Root Access. This is because Shizuku can grant some permissions and is more focused on ADB. Unlike Root Access, which gives you super user permissions and allows you to modify the system practically without limits. The problem with Root is that it compromises Safety Net and device security. At the moment there are not too many apps that require Shizuku, although its popularity is growing as it is much simpler and lighter than having full Root Access.
Shizuku needs to connect to your phone via ADB, and this is much easier to do from Android 11 onwards, with a code for wireless ADB pairing. In case you have a lower version it will be necessary to use USB debugging to be able to use Shizuku.
First step
Activate the phone’s Developer Options, to enable it you must go to Settings>About phone then tap five times on “Build number” until you get a message that you are already a developer.
Second step
Then install the Shizuku app, you can do it by following the link below:
Third step
After that, open the app and scroll through its interface until you get to the “Start via Wireless debugging” section. Press Pairing, which will open a permanent notification from Shizuku, which you will need to use later to enter the pairing code.
Fourth step
Then open Developer Options and under the “Debugging” section turn on “USB Debugging” and “Wireless Debugging”, then tap on “Wireless Debugging” and next, tap on “Pair device with sync code”, which will show you a six-digit numeric code. With the code on the screen, pull down the mobile notifications and tap on the Shizuku notification, to which you can reply with the sync code you just read.
Fifth step
To finish, the only thing left to do is to tap “Start” in the Shizuku window. A window will show you the commands with the process, but you can see the result summarized more easily in the main window of the app, at the top of the screen. If Shizuku is active, everything went well.
Conclusion
Shizuku is an interesting bet by developers who aim to use more advanced features without affecting the SafetyNet status on the device, which every day becomes more and more important to be able to run banking applications and any other app that requires it. Thanks for reading us. Goodbye!
