How should we get the ANDROID_ID?? about android-market-api HOT 4 CLOSED

Your question(s) are somewhat hard to understand?

Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID - should retrieve you the valid androidId of a 
device.

Ad for "getPassword" this is a password hash, the direct password is not meant 
to be recoverable on the device. It also has nothing to do with this api.

Person never replied, this is out of scope anyway

Hi,
the andriod_id is kept in gtalk's database gservice.db(in Long type, you need 
converting to hex string). but normal application no permission to access the 
database. But you can access it by root permissioin. ex. setup a service to 
read the database in init.rc

No, root is not needed. I've described it here: 
http://blog.codepainters.com/2012/01/17/how-to-obtain-gtalk-android-id/