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Android: Unique ID Dilemma

Source: Device ID Despite the fact that I couldn't write anything in the last couple of months due to heavy workload with asshole of teams I decided to write again since I have faced pretty interesting issues over the months. One of that is a Salesforce related issue in Android (Another pretty good story that i'm not suppose to tell *wink*) where I have to come up with a solution which doesn't impact the live version, and during the approach I had to come up with a way where I have to create a unique identifier to identify each device. So in here I'll briefly explain the things I found during that journey. What are our options? If we ask this from most of the developers they might reply saying that we can use Android ID (AKA Android Hardware ID) for this and that's fine, I thought the same thing in the very beginning but I was wrong. So in here I'll explain what are our options, What is the key, what are the pros and cons (The usual sh...