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Hi,
I'm new to MAC and iOS.
In my applications I need to get a unique id for the device(both iphone and ipad). This should be unique and should not change overtime.
I think UDID serves my purpose. But I read that using the UDID is deprecated in iOS 5. Please let me know how I can get a unique id for each device. It shouldn't change with time or network or anyother factor.
Thanks 🙂
See whether UIDevice identifierForVendor introduced in iOS 6 would work for your purposes.
identifierForVendor
An alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies a device to the app’s vendor. (read-only)
Discussion
The value of this property is the same for apps that come from the same vendor running on the same device. A different value is returned for apps onthe same device that come from different vendors, and for apps on different devices regardles of vendor.
Availability
Available in iOS 6.0 and later.
Declared In
UIDevice.hThanks Llessur999 . But my application should support iOS 5.
If I use this it won't work for iOS5 😟
There are several open source libraries floating around to provide similar (not exactly the same) functionality as uniqueIdentifer in iOS 5+. Some are UIDevice categories so would be very easy to drop into an existing project that formerly used UIDevice uniqueIdentifier. Some derive the identifier from MAC address and app bundle identifier, some don't. Read carefully how each works, including the license terms. Two examples, I am sure there are more:
https://github.com/gekitz/UIDevice-with-UniqueIdentifier-for-iOS-5
Thanks, I'll look at that 🙂
get a unique identifier for each iPhone and iPad