The best-known application that opened the door to ROOT access and protected that access, Super SU, has disappeared from the Google Play Store.
Maybe now it is not used so much and has been disused, at least for a large majority of users, but the ROOT in Android contributed to our system reaching its maturity. A good amount of options that now incorporates Google series began their journey as add-ons only accessible to ROOT users. With an app that acted as “Disco doorman: Super SU“.
The famous application of Chainfire was the essential tool in any rooted mobile. As when doing ROOT we opened the door to the bowels of the system to any application that wished to modify it, Super SU exercised its supervision by notifying the access to the root of Android. It was the first of its kind, not the only one. And now, after Chainfire abandoned its development by selling it to a private company, Super SU disappears from the Google Play Store.
Super SU was abandoned and did not meet the latest requirements of Google
The Play Store toughened the requirements for developers in August forcing their apps to be compatible with the latest Android 8 Oreo libraries. Given that Super SU had not been updated for more than a year, and that the company that bought the application, CCMT, did not show signs of continuing with its development, surely Google has proceeded to eliminate it from the Android store.
We do not know the exact reasons since none of the social networks related to Super SU show the slightest activity since a year ago. This indicates the abandonment of the application by the company that acquired it after leaving Chainfire. Although that yes, the version of payment of this root app continues active although it is not updated either.
The deterioration of Super SU, once a bastion of the ROOT access, is a sign of the decreasing interest that the advanced modification of Android provokes. Not only that, but it has also become obsolete before Magisk, a much more comfortable and safe way to have ROOT in a safe and versatile way. The disappearance of Super SU not only highlights the enormous evolution of Android, but also the deterioration of an application when its main developer decides to abandon the ship.
Finally, there was the time when the first thing you were looking for after rooting your mobile was installing the Super SU application. It does not mean that it is worse now that Magisk provides everything necessary to securely manage administrator access, but it is a sign that an era has ended. Thanks for so much, Super SU.