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

Answer 2

You would probably want to use ANDROID_ID.

This is how you can query its value via adb shell:

settings get secure android_id

Or by querying the settings content provider:

content query --uri content://settings/secure/android_id --projection value

Answer 3

Simple as that with adb

adb devices -l

Answer 4

adb shell settings get secure android_id

This command returns ANDROID_ID but it may not be the same as ANDROID_ID received at code level. The application can use different min API level and the value obtained from adb shell may not match

It was possible to get the ANDROID_ID from [net.hostname] prop. It worked in API level 23.

Command to get the android_id for API level 23

adb shell getprop net.hostname

In android 8.0 and above this prop returns null due to android privacy policy changes. Hence, ANDROID_ID doesn't remain to be a reliable method of unique device id comparison.

Answer 5

Please make sure your device is connected by running the below command.

adb devices -l

after that to get the android id of that device you can run the below command.

adb shell content query --uri content://settings/secure --where "name=\'android_id\'"

Answer 6

Try this and find the id besides Android. The command gives basically all info about the phone.

adb -s <YOUR-DEVICE-ID> shell getprop