RxShell

A library that helps your app interact with shells on Android.

Quickstart

Include the library in your modules build.gradle file:

implementation 'eu.darken.rxshell:core:<insert-latest-release>'
implementation 'eu.darken.rxshell:root:<insert-latest-release>' // For root related extensions

Now your project is ready to use the library, let's quickly talk about a few core concepts:

1. You construct a shell using RxCmdShell.builder().
2. The shell has to be opened before use (shell.open()), which will launch the process and give you a RxCmdShell.Session to work with.
3. Build your commands with Cmd.builder("your command").
4. Commands are run with session.submit(command), cmd.submit(session) or cmd.execute(session).
5. Remember to close() the session to release resources.

Examples

Single-Shot execution

If you pass a shell builder to the command it will be used for a single shot execution.

A shell is created and opened, used and closed.

Cmd.execute(...) is shorthand for Cmd.submit(...).blockingGet(), so don't run it from a UI thread.

Cmd.Result result = Cmd.builder("echo hello").execute(RxCmdShell.builder());

Reusing a shell

If you want to issue multiple commands, you can reuse the shell which is faster and uses less resources.

RxCmdShell.Session session = RxCmdShell.builder().build().open().blockingGet();
// Blocking
Cmd.Result result1 = Cmd.builder("echo straw").execute(session);
// Async
Cmd.builder("echo berry").submit(session).subscribe(result -> Log.i("ExitCode: " + result.getExitCode()));
shell.close().blockingGet();

The default shell process is launched using sh, if you want to open a root shell (using su) tell the ShellBuilder!

Cmd.Result result = Cmd.builder("echo hello").execute(RxCmdShell.builder().root(true));

Checking root access

// General info
new RootContext.Builder(getContext()).build().subscribe(c -> {/* c.getRoot().getState() */});
// Just root state
Root root = new Root.Builder().build().blockingGet();
if(root.getState() == Root.State.ROOTED) /* yay */

Used by

• SD Maid, which was also the motivation for this library.

Alternatives

While this is obviously :^) the best library, there are alternatives you could be interested in:

• @Chainfire's libsuperuser
• @SpazeDog's rootfw
• @topjohnwu's libsu