Get Bluetooth local mac address in Marshmallow

Question

Pre Marshmallow my app would obtain it's device MAC address via BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter().getAddress().

Now with Marshmallow Android is returning 02:00:00:00:00:00.

I saw some link(sorry not sure where now) that said you need to add the additional permission

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.LOCAL_MAC_ADDRESS"/> 

to be able to get it. However it isn't working for me.

Is there some additional permission needed to get the mac address?

I am not sure it is pertinent here but the manifest also includes

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/>

So is there a way to get the local bluetooth mac address?

Answer 1

As it turns out, I ended up not getting the MAC address from Android. The bluetooth device ended up providing the Android device MAC address, which was stored and then used when needed. Yeah it seems a little funky but on the project I was on, the bluetooth device software was also being developed and this turned out to be the best way to deal with the situation.