[android-developers] Unique ID for a device: why aren't devices certified Android-compliant?

2011-03-31 Thread davemac
Tim Bray posted the following on the Android Developers Blog: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FhsDu+%28Android+Developers+Blog%29utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher In it, he describes

Re: [android-developers] Unique ID for a device: why aren't devices certified Android-compliant?

2011-03-31 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
31.03.2011 15:35, davemac пишет: Which makes me wonder if there isn't, or shouldn't be, some sort of certification program that Google runs, to make sure that what a manufacturer puts out as Android really is Android. There already is, and is required for Android Market. They just missed the

Re: [android-developers] Unique ID for a device: why aren't devices certified Android-compliant?

2011-03-31 Thread Daniel Drozdzewski
Dave, About the certification programme, please visit: http://source.android.com/compatibility/overview.html About the device's unique ID, it is probably impossible, since Android is open. And looking at it philosophically, why do you need unique device ID for? Licensing issues? Look at PC