Android™ Runtime Development

[Kevin_Wilson]

    My android app, which I am trying to port on playbook, requirs an unique device id to identify each installation. On android I use device's IMEI as uniqe id. I can get this using following code

TelephonyManager mTelephonyMgr = (TelephonyManager) app_context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);

String imei = mTelephonyMgr.getDeviceId();

 Same code on playbook simulator returned me 0000000000429496681245 as IMEI of device. Now I am not sure what this number is and will it be unique?

AFAIK blackberry devices has a PIN as unique id.

Is there a way to access PIN of device using androud code?

Please help....

Thanks in advance...

[bec0ding]

Nope, there is no way to get the PIN ... RIM really needs to do something about this ...

EDIT : I'm working on a way to get it ... Just waiting to receive my PB to test it ...

[bec0ding · Accepted solution]

Well turns out it contains the PIN in decimal format.

		TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager)getContext().getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
		
		String strDevice = tm.getDeviceId();
		
		String strPIN = strDevice.substring(10, strDevice .length() - 2);

[Kevin_Wilson]

Yes. You are right.

We can also get exact PIN

                TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager)getContext().getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
		
		String strDevice = tm.getDeviceId();
		
		String strPIN = strDevice.substring(10, strDevice .length() - 2);

                strPIN = Long.toHexString(Long.parseLong(strPIN ));

 Thanks

[bigluc]

Is there any way to get the 16 digit device ID?

[bigluc]

Solved!

String deviceId = Settings.System.getString(getContentResolver(), Settings.System.ANDROID_ID);

[Rossovich]

Where do I type this to get the ID?