Push notification roadblock with Pushwoosh...

amaximov

Well I was just finishing up a test project to try out push notification using Pushwoosh and apparently Gideros doesn't provide a way to get device UDID or Mac address which is needed to register a device with Pushwoosh...

http://www.pushwoosh.com/programming-push-notification/pushwoosh-push-notification-remote-api/#PushserviceAPI-MethodRegister

Is it possible to add UDID to application:getDeviceInfo() soon? Suggestions anyone?

amaximov

I can successfully register my device my providing a fake UDID string of "1" and even receive notifications. I'm skeptical this would work on a scale of many more users though....

amaximov

Hopeful question: Does Event.PUSH_REGISTRATION pass a UDID in its table? ( I assume event.deviceId is the device token which is completely different...)

ar2rsawseen

UDID now is a no-no in Apple world, any app using it will not be approved.
Most probably MAC is the only option.
But the fact that your string worked only means that it requires a unique identification for device without any attachment to hardware, as in most probably you can generate your own GUIDS as long as they are persistent between your app and device installed on.

http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/uuidguid-string-generator-coronalua
http://lua.2524044.n2.nabble.com/ANN-uuid-pure-Lua-uuid-generator-td7649131.html

gorkem

Mac is also forbidden with the latest sdk, causing problems to many analytics companies..

amaximov

@ar2rsawseen thanks for the help. Wondering if using the deviceToken returned on registration can be used as "udid" as well?

ar2rsawseen

@amaximov, most probably yes, and if you preserve it and won't unregister it should suit the purpose

amaximov

I guess I'll do that then. Still wondering if we wll have MAC address for iOS and UDID for Android anytime soon?

ar2rsawseen

There are problems with the Mac address, is that you need to get it from specific Network interfaces. The way to get it from Wifi differs from the ethernet or the 3/4g interfaces.
And if for example, wifi is disabled, it won't return the Mac address for it.
Thus if you request it once with 3g network and other time with wifi network, you will have two compeltely different unique identifiers, which kills the purpose.

Basically there are different ways to identify devices, but all of them have flaws and the only recommended solution is to generate your own UDIDs

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/03/identifying-app-installations.html