Both Android and iOS don’t allow applications to get the MAC address using their published API. Here, we will see if we can avoid this restriction and get the address using a feature of IPv6. What is a MAC Address A MAC address, or physical address, is a 48-bit number that uniquely identifies a device in a network segment. This number is assigned to the device by the manufacturer and usually doesn’t change (but it can be spoofed).

“A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts” Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft We live in the era of machine learning. Scientists and researchers from around the world are using it to improve our lives in ways we never imagined and advertisers to reach the most relevant people to sell their products. It’s not a recent idea but it scaled so much lately due to great breakthroughs in computer hardware.