get wifi mac on Android 6.0

Question

I have an application that uses the MAC address to register. As everyone knows as of android 6.0 you can no longer use the old method to do this. My problem is it doesn't appear to be a straight forward get MAC address. Hoping someone can help suggest a way to get this working on android 6.0+

my code is as follows;

public void getMacAddress()
{
    WifiManager wifiManager = (WifiManager) getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
    WifiInfo wInfo = wifiManager.getConnectionInfo();
    String macAddress = wInfo.getMacAddress();
    Log.e("address", "mac address:" + macAddress);
    pref = getSharedPreferences(Constant.PREF_APPDATA, MODE_PRIVATE);
    edit=pref.edit();

    if(macAddress!=null)
        edit.putString(Constant.P_DEVICEID, macAddress);
//  else
//      Toast.makeText(this," WiFi MAC address not found.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();

    TelephonyManager tm = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
    if( tm.getDeviceId()== null)
    {
        //edit.putBoolean(Constant.P_IS_TABLET, true);
        //Toast.makeText(Activity_Audio.this, "Tablet", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
    else
    {
        //Toast.makeText(Activity_Audio.this, "Not Tablet", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }

    edit.commit();
}

I believe getting the mac address is deprecated in Android 6+. Instead the function always returns 00:00:00:00:00:00 — 0xDEADC0DE, Jan 18 '17 at 08:45
You should use getHardwareAddress() from NetworkInterface to get it. — Franck Kallaway, Jan 18 '17 at 09:13
and chance you could give me some idea what i need to do? im a NOOB.. :/ — Ess Aiche, Jan 18 '17 at 10:06
Loop on NetworkInterface.getNetworkInterfaces() and call getHardwareAddress() on your wifi interface. Use getName() and check "wlan0".There is good chance that wlan0 is your wifi interface. Otherwise you must find his pretty name. — Franck Kallaway, Jan 18 '17 at 10:20
I think you can go : http://stackoverflow.com/a/39144299/1366052 — Franck Kallaway, Jan 19 '17 at 13:08

get wifi mac on Android 6.0

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