Are their any alternative for UDID?

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As UDID has been deprecated are their any alternative ways for UDID?

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Here's a lib might helps: https://github.com/Kjuly/UIApplication-UIID — Kjuly, Apr 10 '13 at 04:47
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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 04:40

You can use the following thing as a unique Identifier for your app user's :

I use the method below to create a UUID and save it to the user preferences the first time the app is started:

- (NSString *)getUUID
{
    NSString *UUID = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"uniqueID"];
    if (!UUID)
    {
        CFUUIDRef theUUID = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
        CFStringRef string = CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, theUUID);
        CFRelease(theUUID);
        UUID = [(__bridge NSString*)string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"-"withString:@""];
        [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setValue:UUID forKey:@"uniqueID"];
    }
    return UUID;
}

Hope that helps !

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '13 at 05:18

Apple stopped supporting a unique identifier for iOS. This source code solves the problem. It generates a unique identifier based on the mac address of the device in combination with the bundle identifier.

Please download the demo http://bit.ly/10SXhrO

Are their any alternative for UDID?

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