Regarding limitations in setprop to wrap an application

[Alexander Monakov]

On Mon, 9 Dec 2013, Arun Sl wrote:

> Hello Alexander,
> 
> The setprop debug.apitrace.procname is working fine. I verified with 
> getprop for the same. Only wrap.com.rovio.angrybirdsstarwa is not working. 
> Is there any way of using the apitrace on non rooted devices?

No, non-root users cannot be allowed to load arbitrary code in Dalvik VM.

When developing a new application, you can load a tracing library such as
apitrace yourself, but you can't trace arbitrary applications without root.

Alexander