IMEI number of a device in SAP UI5

[Former Member]

Hi,

I am having a requirement in UI5 application to fetch the IMEI number of a mobile device.How is it possible to fetch the IMEI number or UDID number of a mobile device in SAP UI5?

Regards,

Arjun

[Virinchy]

Hi Arjun,

By default UI5 is a web application which runs in a browser, and browser does not have the capabilities to achieve the mobile device specific functionality like address book, contacts, Media....

And IMEI / UUID is one of the device specific functionality which cannot be achieved directly from the browser. A cross platform framework like phone gap / Cordova solves this problem to access the device specific functionality from the web apps like UI5. This blog helps to understand what about Cordova and its working.

Cordova has a plugin as mentioned here to access the UUID. Also have a look at this discussion to access IMEI / UUID via Cordova.

You might need to package the web app via Cordova and add the necessary plugins to access the native device features .

Regards

Virinchy