Fingerprint scanners are pretty common in modern hardware both from Apple and some Android vendors. The problem is that the iOS and Android API’s for accessing them are a world apart. However, it’s possible to find some low level common ground which is exactly what our cn1lib for fingerprint scanning accomplished.
This is a very basic API that just validates the user as the owner of the device, it’s useful to lock off portions of the application from a 3rd party using code such as:
Fingerprint.scanFingerprint("Use your finger print to unlock AppName.", value -> {
Log.p("Scan successful!");
}, (sender, err, errorCode, errorMessage) -> {
Log.p("Scan Failed!");
});Since the cn1lib is pretty simple it can probably be enhanced to support more elaborate functionality in the future.
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Fantastic. To think this is what I have been researching all week. But I do want something not too complex but maybe complex for cn1 at this time. I am ordering external finger print scanners to use with my apps (for data collection). The only way to achieve that I guess is to delve into native code. I will like to see this in the future, take advantage of the inbuilt fingerprint hardware on devices to collect fingerprint data and stored. More like
if(Display.getInstance().isFPSupported())
{
//Collect and store)
}
Great. I don’t think that’s allowed on iOS but you can probably extend the Android code in the library to support some Android specific features and expose them in the API.
Awesome, but how does it know your finger print already? from the OS?
The devices already have scanned fingerprints within. You use the OS interface to scan.
NM
FYI to your original question I suggest installing the cn1lib via the extension manager as you would get the latest version…