Is it possible to get the UDID with Sencha+ Phonegap on an IOS-inhouse app?

Question

For example writing a plugin that helps getting it, as far as i saw its not possible going the device.uuid way from phonegap (i am using version 3) anymore.

I don't want to use the app on the appstore, no privacy concerns, it's an inhouse-app. I just need a unique identifier for ios 6 / ios7, so that i can define who is using the app and who isn't allowed and the udid seems to fit this definition.

Answer 1

You can still use the device.uuid, but it isn't a real UUID

from phonegap doc

iOS Quirk

The uuid on iOS is not unique to a device, but varies for each application, for each installation. It changes if you delete and re-install the app, and possibly also when you upgrade iOS, or even upgrade your app per version (apparent in iOS 5.1). The uuid is not a reliable value.

I've created a plugin to get the identifier for vendor

https://github.com/jcesarmobile/IDFVPlugin

An alphanumeric string that uniquely identifies a device to the app’s vendor. (read-only)

The value in this property remains the same while the app (or another app from the same vendor) is installed on the iOS device. The value changes when the user deletes all of that vendor’s apps from the device and subsequently reinstalls one or more of them. The value can also when installing test builds using Xcode or when installing an app on a device using ad-hoc distribution. Therefore, if your app stores the value of this property anywhere, you should gracefully handle situations where the identifier changes.