https://github.com/mohsenoid/SOTI-IMEI

An Android app that receives IMEI on a SOTI managed device from MobiControl agent
https://github.com/mohsenoid/SOTI-IMEI

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An Android app that receives IMEI on a SOTI managed device from MobiControl agent

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mohsenoid/SOTI-IMEI
• Owner: mohsenoid
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2021-07-01T09:13:54.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2021-07-01T10:09:07.000Z (almost 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T19:55:54.399Z (11 months ago)
• Language: Kotlin
• Size: 144 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS

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README

        
# SOTI-IMEI

An Android app that on a SOTI managed device receives IMEI from MobiControl agent.

![screenshot](screenshot.png)

## Why?

As almost all Android developers know, [since Android 10](https://developer.android.com/training/articles/user-data-ids) the apps cannot have any unique identifier to distinguish a specific device for the sake of user privacy which is fine from the user perspective but if you are developing for a company that has enterprise-managed devices and like to know which device is talking with the backend to white list them then it makes sense to have something like IMEI as a unique ID.

The good news is if you are using the [SOTI MobiControl device manager solution]((https://soti.net/solutions/enterprise-mobility-management)), there is a solution to ask their Agent that has access to Android Enterprise APIs to pass you the Device IMEI value!

## How does it works?

This app has a simple [IMEI Broadcast receiver](app/src/main/java/com/mohsenoid/android/soti/imei/ImeiReceiver.kt) which receives a message from SOTI MobiControl Agent and stores it.

## How to test?

Using ADB you can send this broadcast message intent to test how app works:

`adb shell am broadcast -a com.mohsenoid.android.soti.imei.ACTION --es imei "IMEI\ from\ ADB" -n com.mohsenoid.android.soti.imei/.ImeiReceiver`

## SOTI MobiControl Script

Using the [`sendintent` command in SOTI scripts](https://www.soti.net/mc/help/v14.0/en/scriptcmds/reference/sendintent.html) the IMEI Broadcast receiver receives the IMEI value from the [`%IMEI%` macro](https://www.soti.net/mc/help/v14.0/en/console/other/macros.html):

`sendintent -b "intent:#Intent;action=com.mohsenoid.android.soti.imei.ACTION;S.imei=%IMEI%;component=com.mohsenoid.android.soti.imei/.ImeiReceiver;end;"`