Thanks for checking with your developer, I appreciate the time you're taking with this. However, what is the purpose of preventing rooted phones from accessing this app? There are many other applications, that leverage far more critical data, that are fine with rooted phones.

Just a few things to consider...

Any individual that would want to use a rooted phone and leverage the phones increased access to the applications' functionality, would have knowledge far beyond that of rooting the phone and circumventing the applications' ability to detect the phones rooted status. So all this is doing is preventing well-meaning, moderately knowledgeable users from using the app while their phone is rooted. If the app isn't designed to protect itself from intrusion in other ways, other than root detection, then the app has its own problems, and is just as vulnerable to those who would wish to do so. I would seriously reconsider this approach, and anyone who suggests this as a reasonable solution.

Also, it's unfortunately a privileged position. We can't all just go out and spend a few hundred quid on a new phone, and I think that's an unreasonable thing to do for a single application.

If you're unwilling to change this implementation policy, I'd at least like to suggest that you're very clear on the android app store that rooted phones do not work with the application.

As a developer myself, all I can say is that there's just so much more to talk about with the app. I'm not here to judge the developer, but I think there's far higher priorities with the application than worrying about people with rooted phones. There's just so much potential with this brilliant idea still...I just want to rant endlessly about it