[android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html This link suggests and advises identifying accounts, not specific devices. However, sometimes you can't get around it. E.g. if you have an app that publishes digital content under DRM, you usually have to be able

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Mark Murphy
Do you use any sort of a naming convention, so you can identify what's what for later comparison purposes? I'm thinking something a bit along the lines of URL schemes (imsi:... or even imsi-v10:... for an IMSI reported by API Level 10, where the ... is the actual IMSI value). For example, it may

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Streets Of Boston
We use the generated device-id for DRM purposes. The generated device-id is not used as-is. The DRM code creates encrypts it and creates a hash. The hash is used for identifying the device on the DRM server. It is true that an upgrade from 2.2. to 2.3 can trigger a different result if the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread lbendlin
The vast majority of our support issues is from users that have reflashed the ROM on their device which results in a different Android_ID more often than not. We also decided to use the fallback scenarios of either IMEI or MAC address. (can't use the fancy 2.3 stuff as most users are still on

Re: [android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-05 Thread Raghav Sood
In my apps, I assign the user a username, and then generate a UUID (v4) and associate it with the user name. That way I can maintain it across installs, as long as the user uses the same account, Thanks On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:41 PM, Streets Of Boston flyingdutc...@gmail.comwrote: We use the

[android-developers] Re: Unique ID, but not IMEI, IMSI, MAC, AndroidID

2011-12-04 Thread Rich
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/Settings.Secure.html#ANDROID_ID -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group,