How to Create a Guid/Uuid Using Ios

How to create a GUID/UUID using iOS

[[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier]

Returns the Unique ID of your iPhone.

EDIT: -[UIDevice uniqueIdentifier] is now deprecated and apps are being rejected from the App Store for using it. The method below is now the preferred approach.

If you need to create several UUID, just use this method (with ARC):

+ (NSString *)GetUUID
{
  CFUUIDRef theUUID = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
  CFStringRef string = CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, theUUID);
  CFRelease(theUUID);
  return (__bridge NSString *)string;
}

EDIT: Jan, 29 2014:
If you're targeting iOS 6 or later, you can now use the much simpler method:

NSString *UUID = [[NSUUID UUID] UUIDString];

Generate a UUID on iOS from Swift

Try this one:

let uuid = NSUUID().uuidString
print(uuid)

Swift 3/4/5

let uuid = UUID().uuidString
print(uuid)

How to generate UUID in ios

Try:

CFUUIDRef udid = CFUUIDCreate(NULL);
NSString *udidString = (NSString *) CFUUIDCreateString(NULL, udid);

UPDATE:

As of iOS 6, there is an easier way to generate UUID. And as usual, there are multiple ways to do it:

Create a UUID string:

NSString *uuid = [[NSUUID UUID] UUIDString];

Create a UUID:

[NSUUID UUID]; // which is the same as..
[[NSUUID] alloc] init]; 

Creates an object of type NSConcreteUUID and can be easily casted to NSString, and looks like this: BE5BA3D0-971C-4418-9ECF-E2D1ABCB66BE

NOTE from the Documentation:

Note: The NSUUID class is not toll-free bridged with CoreFoundation’s CFUUIDRef. Use UUID strings to convert between CFUUID and NSUUID, if needed. Two NSUUID objects are not guaranteed to be comparable by pointer value (as CFUUIDRef is); use isEqual: to compare two NSUUID instances.

Generate UUID from name space?

The Swift standard library or the Foundation framework have no built-in method for version 5 UUIDs, as far as I know.

Here is a possible implementation for version 3 and version 5 UUIDs, taken from the description at Generating v5 UUID. What is name and namespace? and the reference implementation in RFC 4122.

(Updated for Swift 4 and later.)

import Foundation
import CommonCrypto

extension UUID {

    enum UUIDVersion: Int {
        case v3 = 3
        case v5 = 5
    }

    enum UUIDv5NameSpace: String {
        case dns  = "6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"
        case url  = "6ba7b811-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"
        case oid  = "6ba7b812-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"
        case x500 = "6ba7b814-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8"
    }

    init(version: UUIDVersion, name: String, nameSpace: UUIDv5NameSpace) {
        // Get UUID bytes from name space:
        var spaceUID = UUID(uuidString: nameSpace.rawValue)!.uuid
        var data = withUnsafePointer(to: &spaceUID) { [count =  MemoryLayout.size(ofValue: spaceUID)] in
            Data(bytes: $0, count: count)
        }

        // Append name string in UTF-8 encoding:
        data.append(contentsOf: name.utf8)

        // Compute digest (MD5 or SHA1, depending on the version):
        var digest = [UInt8](repeating: 0, count:Int(CC_SHA1_DIGEST_LENGTH))
        data.withUnsafeBytes { (ptr: UnsafeRawBufferPointer) -> Void in
            switch version {
            case .v3:
                _ = CC_MD5(ptr.baseAddress, CC_LONG(data.count), &digest)
            case .v5:
                _ = CC_SHA1(ptr.baseAddress, CC_LONG(data.count), &digest)
            }
        }

        // Set version bits:
        digest[6] &= 0x0F
        digest[6] |= UInt8(version.rawValue) << 4
        // Set variant bits:
        digest[8] &= 0x3F
        digest[8] |= 0x80

        // Create UUID from digest:
        self = NSUUID(uuidBytes: digest) as UUID
    }
}

Example 1 (Your case):

let uuid = UUID(version: .v5, name: "5a23dbfb2626b400190998fc-5pCAvA7h8k9JuErRn", nameSpace: .dns)
print(uuid) // 2522B097-8532-548E-A18B-9366C6511B5E

Example 2 (From Appendix B in RFC 4122, as corrected in the Errata):

let uuid = UUID(version: .v3, name: "www.widgets.com", nameSpace: .dns)
print(uuid) //3D813CBB-47FB-32BA-91DF-831E1593AC29

How do I create a GUID / UUID?

UUIDs (Universally Unique IDentifier), also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifier), according to RFC 4122, are identifiers designed to provide certain uniqueness guarantees.

While it is possible to implement RFC-compliant UUIDs in a few lines of JavaScript code (e.g., see @broofa's answer, below) there are several common pitfalls:

• Invalid id format (UUIDs must be of the form "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-Mxxx-Nxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx", where x is one of [0-9, a-f] M is one of [1-5], and N is [8, 9, a, or b]
• Use of a low-quality source of randomness (such as Math.random)

Thus, developers writing code for production environments are encouraged to use a rigorous, well-maintained implementation such as the uuid module.

Getting a cross platform UUID

There's no way to ensure that on the device, you will have to check for uniqueness server side.

How to create UUID type 1 in objective C (iOS)

Get the MAC address first: (from developertips)

#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
 
...
 
- (NSString *)getMacAddress
{
  int                 mgmtInfoBase[6];
  char                *msgBuffer = NULL;
  size_t              length;
  unsigned char       macAddress[6];
  struct if_msghdr    *interfaceMsgStruct;
  struct sockaddr_dl  *socketStruct;
  NSString            *errorFlag = NULL;
 
  // Setup the management Information Base (mib)
  mgmtInfoBase[0] = CTL_NET;        // Request network subsystem
  mgmtInfoBase[1] = AF_ROUTE;       // Routing table info
  mgmtInfoBase[2] = 0;              
  mgmtInfoBase[3] = AF_LINK;        // Request link layer information
  mgmtInfoBase[4] = NET_RT_IFLIST;  // Request all configured interfaces
 
  // With all configured interfaces requested, get handle index
  if ((mgmtInfoBase[5] = if_nametoindex("en0")) == 0) 
    errorFlag = @"if_nametoindex failure";
  else
  {
    // Get the size of the data available (store in len)
    if (sysctl(mgmtInfoBase, 6, NULL, &length, NULL, 0) < 0) 
      errorFlag = @"sysctl mgmtInfoBase failure";
    else
    {
      // Alloc memory based on above call
      if ((msgBuffer = malloc(length)) == NULL)
        errorFlag = @"buffer allocation failure";
      else
      {
        // Get system information, store in buffer
        if (sysctl(mgmtInfoBase, 6, msgBuffer, &length, NULL, 0) < 0)
          errorFlag = @"sysctl msgBuffer failure";
      }
    }
  }
 
  // Befor going any further...
  if (errorFlag != NULL)
  {
    NSLog(@"Error: %@", errorFlag);
    return errorFlag;
  }
 
  // Map msgbuffer to interface message structure
  interfaceMsgStruct = (struct if_msghdr *) msgBuffer;
 
  // Map to link-level socket structure
  socketStruct = (struct sockaddr_dl *) (interfaceMsgStruct + 1);
 
  // Copy link layer address data in socket structure to an array
  memcpy(&macAddress, socketStruct->sdl_data + socketStruct->sdl_nlen, 6);
 
  // Read from char array into a string object, into traditional Mac address format
  NSString *macAddressString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X", 
                                macAddress[0], macAddress[1], macAddress[2], 
                                macAddress[3], macAddress[4], macAddress[5]];
  NSLog(@"Mac Address: %@", macAddressString);
 
  // Release the buffer memory
  free(msgBuffer);
 
  return macAddressString;
}

Then generate the UUIDv1 with the rfc4122 spec, if the spec is too long to read, you may port the code from other language, here's one that I found: https://github.com/fredriklindberg/class.uuid.php/blob/master/class.uuid.php

Is there a method to generate a standard 128bit GUID (UUID) on the Mac?

UUIDs are handled in Core Foundation, by the CFUUID library. The function you are looking for is CFUUIDCreate.

FYI for further searches: these are most commonly known as UUIDs, the term GUID isn't used very often outside of the Microsoft world. You might have more luck with that search term.

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