How to display the users Android Mac Address in a textview on android studio

Question

I'm new to android studio and was wondering if anyone knew how to obtain the users Mac address and display it in a text view with the tag lbl_Mac?

This is my text view xml

    <TextView
    android:id="@+id/lbl_Mac"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="18dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
    android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
    android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
    android:text="MAC Address: Not Found"
    android:textColor="#FFF"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.989"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.983" />

and i want to use this code to obtain the MAC address:

public String getMacAddress(Context context) {
WifiManager wimanager = (WifiManager) context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
String macAddress = wimanager.getConnectionInfo().getMacAddress();
if (macAddress == null) {
    macAddress = "Device don't have mac address or wi-fi is disabled";
}
return macAddress;
}

But I want to set the mac address to the text view.

So... call `setText()` on the `TextView`, supplying the value that you want to display. Bear in mind that you cannot get the MAC address on many Android devices, for privacy reasons. — CommonsWare, Dec 28 '17 at 23:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 29 '17 at 10:40

Just needed to add the public string name into the setText brackets.

lbl_Mac.setText(***getMacAddress***(this));

For Example

    public String ***getMacAddress***(Context context) {
    WifiManager wimanager = (WifiManager) 
    context.getSystemService(Context.WIFI_SERVICE);
    String macAddress = wimanager.getConnectionInfo().getMacAddress();
    if (macAddress == null) {
        macAddress = "Device don't have mac address or wi-fi is disabled";
    }
    return macAddress;

How to display the users Android Mac Address in a textview on android studio

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