akisute / UIApplication-UIID

Unique Installation Identifier (UIID) as a replacement of the depreciated UDID in iOS 5.

README

This addition to the UIApplication generates Unique Installation Identifier (UIID) as a replacement of the depreciated UDID in iOS 5. The generated UIID can either be persistent (stored in Keychain) or non-persistent (stored in NSUserDefaults). The identifier is unique for each installetions of your applications and is much more secure compared to the [[UIDevice sharedDevice] uniqueIdentifier].

Original gist is here: https://gist.github.com/1161447

See http://akisute.com/2011/08/udiduiid.html for more information, written in Japanese.

Features

Version 2 features:

• ARC technology which requires iOS SDK 4.0 or higher to compile. Only runs on iOS 4.0 runtime or above as well.
• Compatible with UIDevice.identifierForVendor.
  • UIApplication-UIID uses that identifier when creating the new UIID if possible.
  • UIApplication-UIID uses the saved UIID values if already created for consistent backword compatibility.

Version 1 features:

• Non-ARC code which supports as low as iOS SDK 2.0 and iOS 2.0 runtime.

Usage

1. Download UIApplication+UIID.h and UIApplication+UIID.m and add them to your projects.
2. If you want the UIID to be persistent, define UIID_PERSISTENT=1 and add Security.framework to your projects.
3. #import "UIApplication+UIID.h"
4. [[UIApplication sharedApplication] uniqueInstallationIdentifier];

LICENSE

This code is licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Copyright (c) 2011 Masashi Ono.

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