I am trying to understand what the Android system property ro.debuggable actually does. I am using Arm Streamline to profile my android application and the documentation states that I can do application profiling using debuggable applications (applications built with the debuggable flag), or I can do a system-wide profile on a rooted device. Reading around I came across the ro.debuggable property and wondered if this would allow me to debug apps not built with the debuggable flag.
Best understanding I can glean so far from documentation is thet ro.debuggable=1 is usually the setting for eng and user-debug builds and somehow allows for a device to be rooted (though does not actually root a device), but what does it actually do? Does it just determine if a device can be rooted or not?
