How to generate UUID in ios

Question

How to get a UUID in objective c, like in Java UUID is used to generate unique random numbers which represents 128 bit value.

Answer 1

-(NSString*) myUUID()
{
    CFUUIDRef newUniqueID = CFUUIDCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault);
    CFStringRef newUniqueIDString = CFUUIDCreateString(kCFAllocatorDefault, newUniqueID);
    NSString *guid = (__bridge NSString *)newUniqueIDString;
    CFRelease(newUniqueIDString);
    CFRelease(newUniqueID);
    return([guid lowercaseString]);
}