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Pankaj Deshpande
Pankaj Deshpande

Reputation: 502

application for a specific unique device

Is there any way to build application for a specific unique device? Suppose I have one android device and I want to create an apk file for that device only, that apk can't be get installed on any another device, is it possible?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1173

Answers (4)

Graeme
Graeme

Reputation: 25864

You can use the code in this answer to get the unique device ID.

However, you won't be able to use this to restrict Google Play to restrict your app to this device only, instead, as @ThomasK suggests, you can add a check for this specific device id and finish() if it's not the specific device.

You can limit your app installing from play in many ways, but you cannot restrict it to that extent at a configuration level.

Upvotes: 1

Vipul
Vipul

Reputation: 28093

that apk can't be get installed on any another device, is it possible?

I am not sure about this.But you can decide whether to Enable certain feature based on Device.

Like you can programatically check device wifi mac address which is unique to each device. If it don't match your criteria don't enable the feature.

Upvotes: 0

Thkru
Thkru

Reputation: 4199

There are two chances for your purpose:

1st:
when the app starts (that means installing IS possible) you could get the MODEL of the device and if it is NOT the device you designed the app for, you could finish() the activity and the app.

getting the model:

String PhoneModel = android.os.Build.MODEL;

2nd:
Afaik there is a possibility to control what devices are forbidden for your app in the Google Play Store maybe there is not only a Blacklist, but a Whitelist for this?

Upvotes: 0

kumar_android
kumar_android

Reputation: 2263

No, you can't do that, Impossible

Upvotes: 0

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