Getting Android Device Identifier From ADB and Android SDK

Question

I am looking for the easiest way to get a unique android device identifier from both the Android adb and the Android ADK itself.

For example, when i use the adb \'devi

Answer 1

Android stores all the device related info in one or the other sqlite DB. These databases can be found in /data/data/ folder. To read these databases from adb you will need root permissions.

The android id is available in /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db

So for adb use this command.

adb shell sqlite3 /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db "select value from secure where name = 'android_id'"

**you must be running adb as root in adb