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Provides an API for FaceID and TouchID (iOS) or the Fingerprint API (Android) to authenticate the user with a face or fingerprint scan.
Provides an API for FaceID and TouchID (iOS) or the Fingerprint API (Android) to authenticate the user with a face or fingerprint scan.
For managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release.
For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the expo
package before continuing.
npx expo install expo-local-authentication
Run npx pod-install
after installing the npm package.
Add NSFaceIDUsageDescription
to your Info.plist
:
<key>NSFaceIDUsageDescription</key>
<string>Allow $(PRODUCT_NAME) to use FaceID</string>
No additional set up necessary.
This module requires permissions to access the biometric data for authentication purposes. The USE_BIOMETRIC
and USE_FINGERPRINT
permissions are automatically added.
<!-- Added permissions -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT" />
Contributions are very welcome! Please refer to guidelines described in the contributing guide.
FAQs
Provides an API for FaceID and TouchID (iOS) or the Fingerprint API (Android) to authenticate the user with a face or fingerprint scan.
The npm package expo-local-authentication receives a total of 66,849 weekly downloads. As such, expo-local-authentication popularity was classified as popular.
We found that expo-local-authentication demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 31 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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