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Android

Posted by John Weland
John Weland
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Obtain the MAC address of a device in an app

I'm working on a SIP phone app here at work and we are needing to do some remote provisioning. I need my app to be able to grab the device's MAC address or maybe serial number and pass that from the app to our provisioning server.

I hear in iOS that the application level cannot get a device's MAC for security reasons, so they instead use an application GUID. Is there a way to do this in Android. MAC address was our VPs first thought but really it is anything that will be unique to that device. MAC, serial number, GUID... Something.

Ben Jakuben, Ben Deitch, or anyone else please chime in.