In ICS's Developer Options, there's a preference "Development device ID" with a 13 character string (XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-X screenshot: http://cdn.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Screenshot_2011-12-05-12-06-48-365x650.png). I searched high and low to find out what it might before but couldn't find anything.
So I looked at the source of the Settings app to see where it was coming from (https://github.com/android/ platform_packages_apps_settings/blob/master/src/com/android/settings/ DevelopmentSettings.java#L143): final Preference verifierDeviceIdentifier = findPreference(VERIFIER_DEVICE_IDENTIFIER); final PackageManager pm = getActivity().getPackageManager(); final VerifierDeviceIdentity verifierIndentity = pm.getVerifierDeviceIdentity(); if (verifierIndentity != null) { verifierDeviceIdentifier.setSummary(verifierIndentity.toString()); } And looking at the online docs, PackageManager#getVerifierDeviceIdentity is not documented. However, viewing the source shows (https://github.com/android/ platform_frameworks_base/blob/master/core/java/android/content/pm/ PackageManager.java#L2658): /** * Returns the device identity that verifiers can use to associate their * scheme to a particular device. This should not be used by anything other * than a package verifier. * * @return identity that uniquely identifies current device * @hide */ public abstract VerifierDeviceIdentity getVerifierDeviceIdentity(); It states that it is a device identifier, yet says we shouldn't use it to identify devices... Does anyone know if this is in someway similar to ANDROID_ID? If not, does anyone know what this is for? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
