why not imsi? On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Wayne Wenthin <[email protected]> wrote:
> wow replying to myself... So as I was reading other posts here I came > across an idea. We (well I am) are talking about the ANDROID_ID as if it > were a MAC. I haven't looked but if the phone supports Wi-Fi wouldn't it > need an MAC? > Going to look at the SDK docs now. > > > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Wayne Wenthin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry Mark I misread your earlier post. I don't know where I got a >> number from.... ;-) >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Mark Murphy <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> >>> RichardC wrote: >>> > Given that people are rooting phones and producing their own custom >>> > platform builds I cannot see how any field can be relied on to be >>> > unique across all devices. >>> >>> Good point. ANDROID_ID is stored in a SQLite database IIRC, so you do >>> not even need to replace the firmware to hack the ID -- just have root >>> access on the device. >>> >>> -- >>> Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) >>> http://commonsware.com | http://twitter.com/commonsguy >>> >>> Android App Developer Books: http://commonsware.com/books.html >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Writing code is one of few things >> that teaches me I don't know everything. >> >> http://www.fuligin.com >> > > > > -- > Writing code is one of few things > that teaches me I don't know everything. > > http://www.fuligin.com > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

