To that end, these are the best root apps that take advantage of the power rooting puts in your hands. Once you’ve rooted your phone, you can use Magisk to hide your root privileges from apps that require your device not be rooted, like banking apps. Magisk doesn’t require you to root and unroot your phone, and instead, you can choose which apps you allow root access to, and which apps you want to keep in the dark. (requires sideloading) Tasker isn’t free, but it’s well worth the price of admission. It’s surprising just how useful it is to be able to schedule everything on your phone. For example, you can change the brightness settings at night or disconnect from Wi-Fi when you’re sleeping to save battery. This app goes a step further than most backup apps by using root privileges to access both apps and system data for the backups it makes, meaning you can return your device to a previous state, even if system data is corrupted, making it ideal for fans of custom ROMs. Solid Explorer also has options for networked files, both from your local network and the cloud. Additionally, it has the ability to open and create archives, like ZIP and RAR. System App Remover lists your apps by category, enabling you to browse the apps you’ve installed yourself in addition to the apps pre-installed on your phone. You install Greenify on your device, then run through the setup process, answering a few questions about your device and how aggressive you want it to be in managing your energy use. When you’re done, Greenify gets to work keeping your apps in check and saving your battery. Dumpster also works on apps. If you uninstall one, it automatically makes a backup copy, so you can reinstall it directly from your own phone, instead of downloading it again from the Play Store. Dumpster also offers cloud storage, to make even more resilient backups of your files. There really isn’t much else to it. If your phone is seemingly starting to slow down, you can use Quick Reboot to restart your system processes and speed things up. As the name suggests, it’ll restart quickly. SuperSU lets you grant and deny root access on a per-app basis, allowing for more control and a slightly better degree of security. SuperSU logs root access and activities as well, allowing you to see if anything fishy is going on behind the scenes. SuperSU also lets you temporarily revoke root permissions to hide from root detection. On top of that, 3C Toolbox includes utilities to better control your device’s battery, network settings, CPU performance, and storage. There’s also a task manager and monitoring and logging capabilities to get a clear picture of how your device is performing and where weak points and bottlenecks may be. Beyond opening and managing files, ES File Explorer includes a lot of options to share your files with others, too, whether it’s with other people using ES File Explorer or sharing with Google Drive and Dropbox. Additionally, ES File Explorer can also analyze your storage for you and alert you to duplicate files, and it does it all with a great looking, responsive interface. With the addition of a package manager, you can install ssh, su, top, tar, ffmpeg, vim, and just about any Linux command-line tool you can think of. Termux even adds support for popular programming languages like PHP, Ruby, and Python, to the extent that you can run full Python scripts and applications on your Android. That said, if you’re really interested in doing something different, you can run NodeJS with Termux. That’s how robust the support for Linux goes with Termux.
