Get Bluetooth local mac address in Marshmallow

Question

Pre Marshmallow my app would obtain it's device MAC address via BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter().getAddress().

Now with Marshmallow Android is returning 02:00:00:00:00:00.

I saw some link(sorry not sure where now) that said you need to add the additional permission

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.LOCAL_MAC_ADDRESS"/>  

to be able to get it. However it isn't working for me.

Is there some additional permission needed to get the mac address?

I am not sure it is pertinent here but the manifest also includes

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"/> <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION"/> 

So is there a way to get the local bluetooth mac address?

Answer 1

zmarties is right but you can still get the mac address via reflection or Settings.Secure:

  String macAddress = android.provider.Settings.Secure.getString(context.getContentResolver(), "bluetooth_address"); 

Answer 2

Access to the mac address has been deliberately removed:

To provide users with greater data protection, starting in this release, Android removes programmatic access to the device’s local hardware identifier for apps using the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth APIs.

(from Android 6.0 Changes)