Unique identifier of Android device

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M Matthew Chu 3 years 7 months ago
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In Windows Mobile device, my developer based off UUID's and Platform ID's to uniquely id a device for licensing his software.  On Android devices, is there equivalent to those ID's, other than serial numbers, MAC address or IEMI numbers.
Any ideas or suggestion is much appreciated.
 
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R Richard Venderbosch

Hello Matthew.

There is another choice for an unique ID: the ANDROID_ID.

Please see Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID in the Android online documentation or one of these links:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2785485/is-there-a-unique-android-de…
Identifying App Installations | Android Developers Blog
android_id=Settings.Secure.getString(this.context.getContentResolver(),Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID);

P Pietro Francesco Maggi

You can use the Electronic Serial Number.
I've an old blog about this:
Getting device info from MSI Android devices  · Pietro F. Maggi

It's better to avoid MAC address because these are no more accessible to application in Android v6.0 MarshMallow:
To provide users with greater data protection, starting in this release, Android removes programmatic access to the device’s local hardware identifier for apps using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth APIs.

Android 6.0 Changes | Android Developers

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