Yes and no. You can write the gui front end within the SDK. But there is no mechanism to achieve privilege escalation of the process running the dalvik virtual machine running SDK code. So you will need a privileged back end that runs as a separate process, or a service added to the platform, or modify the platform to create a new android permission/unix group pair which will have access to a capability you have added to the kernel. None of these latter items ware within the domain of the SDK.
On Jan 11, 1:27 pm, paddy joe <paddyjoes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > Is is possible to write Android applications based on the (Eclipse) > Android SDK that have access to the underlying Linux kernal programs/ > resources such as iptables configuratuon ? > > I would like to be able to configure iptables using an android GUI app > or perhaps develop a low-level Linux packet sniffer of my own and a > corresponding high-level android app that presents the results > emulated in the SDK. Is this possible? Is root access provided? > > regards, > Patrick. -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
