Hi All, I was going through the recent developer blog at http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2016/02/marshmallow-and-user-data.html. Consequently, I have also checked best practices for device identifier at http://developer.android.com/training/articles/user-data-ids.html?utm_campaign=android_discussion_marshmallow_020116&utm_source=anddev&utm_medium=blog.
My observation from above references is that android.os.Build.SerialNumber is not referred for any scenario within Best practices. In android, *Serial Number seems to be unique per device and even remain persistent after factory reset*. If we recall a blog few years down ( http://android-developers.blogspot.in/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html ), it is mentioned that Serial Number can be used as unique hardware identifier for non telephony devices. Any specific reason for not including the Serial Number in the latest guidelines? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/fe783da8-6af9-41ad-8dbc-6548583bdd29%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
