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For demonstration purposes, we’ve created an open source application that calculates the ID and checks its uniqueness. You can download the app on Google Play (for Android 5.0 and above, no permissions are required); the source code is available on GitHub.
For some examples of more stable and reliable methods, please view our fingerprint-android library source code. Google has not restricted these for a number of years now, and it is unlikely that it ever will. At the end of the day, doing so would impact Android’s efficacy as an advertising platform — and for the world’s largest tech firm, it’s a constant juggle between balancing these interests with protecting user privacy.