Credits

Beetroot is a thin orchestration layer on top of several excellent open-source projects. None of this would exist without them.

redroid

redroid — the Android-in-a-container project that makes running Android on a standard Linux host possible. redroid maps Android's kernel requirements (binder) onto the host kernel, avoiding the full overhead of a VM while keeping the Android userland intact.

ayasa520/redroid-script

ayasa520/redroid-script — the patcher that Beetroot's beetroot build verb uses to bake Magisk, LiteGapps, and Houdini into a redroid base image. Without this patcher, getting root + GApps + ARM translation into the image would require significant manual work.

Magisk

Magisk — the systemless root and module framework. Beetroot uses Magisk for:

• Root access via Zygisk.
• Denylist to hide root from GMS and target apps.
• Module system for flashing Shamiko and other overlays.
• magisk --sqlite for scriptable DB configuration from entrypoint.sh.

Frida

Frida — the dynamic instrumentation toolkit. Beetroot manages the Frida server binary per-instance, downloading it from GitHub releases and bind-mounting it into the container. beetroot frida-addr prints an instance's Frida address so you can point the host-side frida CLI at it.

Shamiko / LSPosed

LSPosed/Shamiko — a Magisk module that upgrades the denylist from "deny root access" to "hide Magisk's existence entirely" for denylisted processes. The examples/stealth.yaml starter config ships a commented-out Shamiko modules: block ready to uncomment — the release URL is left to the user to fill in because LSPosed re-tags Shamiko releases, so a hard-coded URL would go stale silently.

LiteGapps

LiteGapps — a minimal Google Mobile Services package that provides just enough of GMS for apps that require it, without the full bloat of a standard GApps package.

Houdini

Intel's ARM-on-x86_64 binary translation layer, included in the base image via the redroid-script patcher. Enables running ARM-compiled APKs on x86_64 research hosts without recompiling.