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According to Flurry documentation,

"New Users

A new user is a user who has just started using your application. Users are identified by unique phone IDs (which vary by platform) to ensure that a user is in fact a unique new user and not just a re-installation."

Can anyone elaborate the "unique phone IDs (which vary by platform)" part?

Thanks.

lorraine batol
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  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Station_Equipment_Identity the device unique id is the imei number, what is different for all devices. – Arnold Feb 28 '13 at 08:10
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    @Arnold : Sometimes few devices doesn't return IMEI. For example Tablets. – Manish Dubey Feb 28 '13 at 08:16

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For Android, the unique IDs are likely to be one of:

  • Device IMEI number (only works for devices with SIM card slots)
  • Bluetooth/WiFi MAC address (present on majority of devices)
  • Secure.ANDROID_ID (technically present on all devices, but its known to be buggy in some versions)
Raghav Sood
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You don't really need to do anything for it.

About how flurry does it, i'm not entirely sure but i guess they're just taking some info specific to the device and create an own 'flurry-number' out of that.

Since these info's can differ from platform (per example for Apple you could take the UDID for a long time) this 'can very by platform'.

Stefan de Bruijn
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