How to validate the bluetooth MAC address correctly?

Question

I have a developer's options pane inside my app, where a developer can input test MAC address of the device. The question is how to validate it correctly? Does Android have some methods out of the box to do this?

Answer 1

Thank everybody for your help. I found the solution. BluetoothAdapter.checkBluetoothAddress(String) validates the MAC address. It checks if MAC matches the pattern given here , if length equals 17 chars, if all letters are uppercase and whether all chars are hex chars.

Answer 2

MAC addresses have this format:

String formatMAC = "%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X";

So you can check that a device's MAC address matches this format using String's matches() method:

public boolean matches(String regex) {
    return Pattern.matches(regex, this);
}