expo-local-authentication
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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.
This package is pre-installed in managed Expo projects. You may skip the rest of the installation guide if this applies to you.
For bare React Native projects, you must ensure that you have installed and configured the react-native-unimodules package before continuing.
npm install expo-local-authentication
Run pod install in the ios directory after installing the npm package.
No additional set up necessary.
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 70,877 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 32 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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