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We have often talked about how to uniquely identify a device. (See here) No exhaustive and functional method and result for all devices and the various versions of Android. You think you can use the Google Advertising ID to identify a device/user?
link: I turned to this thread to read a good answer. All I saw is an answer that is irrelevant. I hope we can focus on the technical aspects of this forum.
link: I like your new avatar :) Regards, Anand

I don't have an example, but I've whipped one up (bit of a battle to get it going, not sure if it was my computer running out of disk space yesterday, or that copied an existing project and renamed the files) but I have to go out now, so here's what I've got so far. Run it, and the log will list de

Hi When installing app in debug mode the ide shows the device id 1. Is this a unique ID? 2. How can I get this ID from my app? Thanks
link: I am not sure but you can get that in B4A Bridge source code. FYI Advertising ID is most reliable
link: Unique device identifiers have been discussed in this forum many, many times - you can find example threads quite easily. If you are using recent Andr
link: update: i'm using this code to get the DeviceID DEviceID = P.GetSettings("android_id").ToUpperCase Log($"DeviceID: ${DEviceID}"$) the results on 2

my understanding is that the device-id and vendor-id are to be decimal, not hex.
link: My mistake. It should be: CreateResource(xml, device_filter.xml, <resources> <usb-device vendor-id="0x1546" product-id="0x01a8"/> </resources> )
link: Add the device filter with: CreateResource(values, device_filter.xml, <resources> <usb-device vendor-id="0x1546" product-id="0x01a8"/> </resources> )
link: im using felUsbSerial & UsbManager lib each time i reboot my device it request Permission again. despite i used in device filter.xml: <?xml version=

This is an old tutorial. It will not work on new versions of Android. You should either generate a random value when the app starts for the first time or use the advertising id: https://www.b4x.-id.101050/#content This tutorial is based on the following blog post: Identifying App Installations | An
link: Sub GetID As String Dim P As Phone Return P.GetSettings("android_id") End Sub ? NOPE : this one seems better doing https://b4x.-device-id-again.843
link: Using the code on first page (Erel) I cannot get ID from android tv device (getting 123456..) and using the WIFI code I am getting 2:0:0:0:0... which
link: I know but all your app(s) is at risk of hacking and I do not think there is a definitive method to establish a unique device ID based on its hardware

B4i BLE library is now available. This library allows you to connect and read data from BLE peripheral devices. Using this library is quite simple. There are three main steps: 1. Search for devices (assuming that the state is STATE_POWERED_ON). 2. Connect to a device. 3. Read data from the device.
link: After a bit more research, this id is auto-generated by the OS. It is more or less random. However there isn't any other id available. Add Log(Adver
link: Hello, The ID field in: Sub Manager_DeviceFound (Name As String, Id As String, AdvertisingData As Map, RSSI As Double) Log("Found: " & Name & ",

Actually it's a full device based IDE for coding complete apps on the phone though you can use the interpreter library to add scripting to your own apps as well.

Due to legal restrictions and for privacy reasons, on more recent android devices the computed device ID will always be diferent from phone to phone, and also everytime you change the app key, delete & reinstall the app or reset the device. For the purpose you want, you must develop your own solutio
link: Thanks Are you saying that on same phone, 2 apps will get different device ID? I removed and reinstalled many times, the ID is still different and i
link: hi i have this code that i use to get the device id Sub GetDeviceID() As String Dim DeviceID As String="" Dim p As Phone Try

I think every device does have a unique ID. I have some inline Java code that will extract it. Maybe I am wrong but from what I understand is that is ID is unique. Does android devices have a central database where unique ID's are kept/allocated? Does someone know?
link: combine mac with ticks to hex or something. chances are kind of none existing to get the same combo on another device.
link: Hi guys, there are several threads about creating a reliable unique device id. My first thought was: Why not take the MAC address of the Wifi AND th
link: Johan, I have real devices that just have 123456789 as id. you can't really trust that.

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