Quick Answer: What Is User Build Android?
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user – User build is the one flashed on production phones. Has no root access. user-debug – User debug build does not come with default root access but can be rooted. It also contains extra logging.

What is an android build?

The Android build system compiles app resources and source code, and packages them into APKs that you can test, deploy, sign, and distribute. … The output of the build is the same whether you are building a project from the command line, on a remote machine, or using Android Studio.

What does build type user mean?

userdebug is defined as a user build with root access enabled, except: userdebug-only apps that are run only on-demand by the user. Operations that run only during idle maintenance (on charger/fully charged), such as using dex2oatd versus dex2oat for background compiles.

Alexander Ross

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