Get Device mac adress in Android Nougat and O programmatically

Deepak Ror picture Deepak Ror · Apr 11, 2017 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

I have an application, which required device mac address. I'm getting mac address in Marshmallow and below easily but problem with android nougat and O. So how to find mac.

Answer

Emanuel S picture Emanuel S · Apr 11, 2017

Changed since 6.0 and later: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/marshmallow/android-6.0-changes.html#behavior-hardware-id

To provide users with greater data protection, starting in this release, Android removes programmatic access to the device’s local hardware identifier for apps using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth APIs. The WifiInfo.getMacAddress() and the BluetoothAdapter.getAddress() methods now return a constant value of 02:00:00:00:00:00.

To access the hardware identifiers of nearby external devices via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi scans, your app must now have the ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION or ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION permissions.

Behavior Changes in 7.0:

Device owners can access device identifiers. A Device owner can access the Wi-Fi MAC address of a device, using DevicePolicyManagewr.getWifiMacAddress(). If Wi-Fi has never been enabled on the device, this method returns a value of null.