I ran into the same issue, if you just need the advertiserId you could interact with the Google Play Service directly using an Intent. Example of custom class:
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.concurrent.LinkedBlockingQueue;
import android.content.ComponentName;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.ServiceConnection;
import android.content.pm.PackageManager;
import android.os.IBinder;
import android.os.IInterface;
import android.os.Looper;
import android.os.Parcel;
import android.os.RemoteException;
public final class AdvertisingIdClient {
public static final class AdInfo {
private final String advertisingId;
private final boolean limitAdTrackingEnabled;
AdInfo(String advertisingId, boolean limitAdTrackingEnabled) {
this.advertisingId = advertisingId;
this.limitAdTrackingEnabled = limitAdTrackingEnabled;
}
public String getId() {
return this.advertisingId;
}
public boolean isLimitAdTrackingEnabled() {
return this.limitAdTrackingEnabled;
}
}
public static AdInfo getAdvertisingIdInfo(Context context) throws Exception {
if(Looper.myLooper() == Looper.getMainLooper()) throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot be called from the main thread");
try { PackageManager pm = context.getPackageManager(); pm.getPackageInfo("com.android.vending", 0); }
catch (Exception e) { throw e; }
AdvertisingConnection connection = new AdvertisingConnection();
Intent intent = new Intent("com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.service.START");
intent.setPackage("com.google.android.gms");
if(context.bindService(intent, connection, Context.BIND_AUTO_CREATE)) {
try {
AdvertisingInterface adInterface = new AdvertisingInterface(connection.getBinder());
AdInfo adInfo = new AdInfo(adInterface.getId(), adInterface.isLimitAdTrackingEnabled(true));
return adInfo;
} catch (Exception exception) {
throw exception;
} finally {
context.unbindService(connection);
}
}
throw new IOException("Google Play connection failed");
}
private static final class AdvertisingConnection implements ServiceConnection {
boolean retrieved = false;
private final LinkedBlockingQueue<IBinder> queue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<IBinder>(1);
public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder service) {
try { this.queue.put(service); }
catch (InterruptedException localInterruptedException){}
}
public void onServiceDisconnected(ComponentName name){}
public IBinder getBinder() throws InterruptedException {
if (this.retrieved) throw new IllegalStateException();
this.retrieved = true;
return (IBinder)this.queue.take();
}
}
private static final class AdvertisingInterface implements IInterface {
private IBinder binder;
public AdvertisingInterface(IBinder pBinder) {
binder = pBinder;
}
public IBinder asBinder() {
return binder;
}
public String getId() throws RemoteException {
Parcel data = Parcel.obtain();
Parcel reply = Parcel.obtain();
String id;
try {
data.writeInterfaceToken("com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.internal.IAdvertisingIdService");
binder.transact(1, data, reply, 0);
reply.readException();
id = reply.readString();
} finally {
reply.recycle();
data.recycle();
}
return id;
}
public boolean isLimitAdTrackingEnabled(boolean paramBoolean) throws RemoteException {
Parcel data = Parcel.obtain();
Parcel reply = Parcel.obtain();
boolean limitAdTracking;
try {
data.writeInterfaceToken("com.google.android.gms.ads.identifier.internal.IAdvertisingIdService");
data.writeInt(paramBoolean ? 1 : 0);
binder.transact(2, data, reply, 0);
reply.readException();
limitAdTracking = 0 != reply.readInt();
} finally {
reply.recycle();
data.recycle();
}
return limitAdTracking;
}
}
}
Make sure that you are not calling this from the main UI thread.
For example, use something like:
new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
try {
AdInfo adInfo = AdvertisingIdClient.getAdvertisingIdInfo(context);
advertisingId = adInfo.getId();
optOutEnabled = adInfo.isLimitAdTrackingEnabled();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}).start();
