Re: [android-developers] IMEI/MEID guaranteed?

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Wall-E <basheer.w@gmail.com> wrote:
> Am I guaranteed to get the IMEI/MEID by calling getDeviceId() from the
> telephony manager?

Not really:

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html

> I ask because you don't always have access to the device phone
> number.  I want to be able to have an ID that is specific to the
> hardware and I'm not sure if the ANDROID_ID is constant or if it will
> change if the user upgrades the version of Android.

To quote the blog posted linked to above:

"There are many good reasons for avoiding the attempt to identify a
particular device. For those who want to try, the best approach is
probably the use of ANDROID_ID on anything reasonably modern, with
some fallback heuristics for legacy devices."

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