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You cannot intall and run suid executables with your APK. In &lt;=4.3 they will run with user of application(thanks mount -o nosuid), with 4.4 they will not run at all thanks selinux.
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You cannot intall and run suid executables with your APK. In <=4.3 they will run with user of application(thanks mount -o nosuid), with 4.4 they will not run at all thanks selinux.

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Some seem to be doing this, offering visual traceroute, ping and other things. How are they doing it?
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Some seem to be doing this, offering visual traceroute, ping and other things. How are they doing it?

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I think ping is included with system and you can call it.
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I think ping is included with system and you can call it.

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Ok, but there are still many visual traceroute apps. Doesn't that mean there is a way of accessing some of those command line tools from an app? <br />
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I know one can install busybox but that is only on a rooted device.
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Ok, but there are still many visual traceroute apps. Doesn't that mean there is a way of accessing some of those command line tools from an app?

I know one can install busybox but that is only on a rooted device.

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Traceroute uses UDP, ping uses raw sockets which need root
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Traceroute uses UDP, ping uses raw sockets which need root

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Really? So this is impossible? To convert a small Linux script which uses ping, traceroute and mtr to android? There is no way what so ever to do this?
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Really? So this is impossible? To convert a small Linux script which uses ping, traceroute and mtr to android? There is no way what so ever to do this?

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I would have though mobiles are the future and would have ways to do practically anything. <br />
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I'm surprised but thanks for your input.
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I would have though mobiles are the future and would have ways to do practically anything.

I'm surprised but thanks for your input.

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Someone asked me if we could build an app which uses the above tools on our office mobile devices but when looking around, the only solutions I found were for rooted devices.<br />
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I cannot seem to find these tools which could be used in an app instead of a rooted device.
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Someone asked me if we could build an app which uses the above tools on our office mobile devices but when looking around, the only solutions I found were for rooted devices.

I cannot seem to find these tools which could be used in an app instead of a rooted device.

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