Android get Serial Number

Question

I am trying to get the device serial number programmatically. I have used the following line:

Build.SERIAL

Which returns something like :

Answer 1

I know this question is several years old now, but I wanted to post an updated version, especially for those who may be using Xamarin. This is a solution for C# Xamarin Android, based on the solution posted above by user flawyte.

Here is the code:

public static string GetDeviceSerialCode ( )
{
    string serial_number = string.Empty;

    try
    {
        var c = Java.Lang.Class.ForName("android.os.SystemProperties");
        var get = c.GetMethod("get", Java.Lang.Class.FromType(typeof(Java.Lang.String)));

        serial_number = (string)get.Invoke(c, "gsm.sn1");
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(serial_number))
        {
            serial_number = (string)get.Invoke(c, "ril.serialnumber");
        }
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(serial_number))
        {
            serial_number = (string)get.Invoke(c, "ro.serialno");
        }
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(serial_number))
        {
            serial_number = (string)get.Invoke(c, "sys.serialnumber");
        }
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(serial_number))
        {
            serial_number = Build.GetSerial();
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        serial_number = string.Empty;
    }

    return serial_number;
}