In my experience Apple can have an issue with using the advertising id if you do not have one of the advertising provider ANEs also installed and initialized. I can't remember if apple actually needed to see ads to approve it or not, but yes it is something you need to be careful with on iOS. Android was less of an issue (I don't recall any issue).
If I recall correctly the advertising id can also be reset by the user so it is possible for the same device to have a different advertising id at different points in time. In practice I think this is rare for most users. But this might be worth checking if it is important also.... -Greg On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 12:18 PM, bilbosax <waspenc...@comcast.net> wrote: > I don't want to overwhelm anyone with the details of what I am trying to > do, > but in a nutshell, I am trying to develop a mobile AIR app for real estate > agents that is customizeable that they can give to their clients and, and > when the client installs it, it will look like the real estate agent wrote > it themselves and will have their branding in the app. > > To do this, I need to save a unique identifier from any Android or iOS > device that installs the app. Apparently, this is inconsistent approach > and > not supported across all devices, so I can't do something simple like store > a MAC address or a UDID because not all devices will allow access to these > identifiers, so I would get inconsistent results. > > The only consistent identifiers that I have been able to narrow down are > Advertising ID's. These are provided by both iOS and Android devices and > there are ANE's available that will give you access to these identifiers. > What I am concerned with is this - I am not using them to provide Ads to my > users. I just need to know who a user is and associate them with a real > estate agent consistently. > > Does anyone know if Apple or Google will throw up a fuss if you try to > submit an app to the app store that uses an Advertising ID, but is not > using > it to serve up ads??? > > Thanks for any thoughts! > > > > -- > Sent from: http://apache-flex-users.2333346.n4.nabble.com/ >
