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.
For managed managed Expo projects, please follow the installation instructions in the API documentation for the latest stable release. If you follow the link and there is no documentation available then this library is not yet usable within managed projects — it is likely to be included in an upcoming Expo SDK release.
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.
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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.
The npm package expo-local-authentication receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, expo-local-authentication popularity was classified as not 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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