Sadly, the launcher tells us it doesn't support rooted devices. Given that this is a limited release to presumably early adopters, I find this not only annoying but counter-intuituve. sigh

Does it actually refuse to launch if your device has root?

Yes. RootCloak works though.

Well, that answers my next question: is there a tool that prevents apps from detecting root?

Worked for Zynga!

Under Linux, one could easily substitute fswebcam https://github.com/fsphil/fswebcam for command-line pictures and avconv http://www.itforeveryone.co.uk/image-to-video.html to make the timelapse.

http://coderwall.com/p/ijgggw

This person is a jerk.