Android has supported fingerprint sensors since API 23 and previously we looked at the new APIs to handle them using BiometricPrompt and BiometricManager. For the latter we looked at how to create a compat wrapper so that this works back to API 23. But we didn’t implement one for BiometricPrompt. Since writing those articles, I…
Category: Biometrics
Biometrics – BiometricManager
Android has supported fingerprint sensors since API 23 and we previously covered the APIs for handling user authentication on Styling Android. However the FingerprintManager class which those tutorials rely upon were deprecated in API 28 (Pie). In this series we’ll look at the new APIs which were introduced in Pie to replace this. Previously we…
Biometrics – BiometricPrompt
Android has supported fingerprint sensors since API 23 and we previously covered the APIs for handling user authentication on Styling Android. However the FingerprintManager class which those tutorials rely upon were deprecated in API 28 (Pie). In this series we’ll look at the new APIs which were introduced in Pie to replace this.