Fingerprint - lockscreen.

[Randy Watson]

Just wondering if its possible to add fingerprint support for the set state Action of the lockscreen.

We have set state pattern and pin.

Thanks for your great work!

[Martin]

Hi,

To my knowledge there's no support for this in the official part of the Android API provided by Google. I guess that unofficial methods would at least require root permissions. Unfortunately I have no rooted device with a finger print reader to make experiments.

Regards,
Martin

[Randy Watson]

Hi,

To my knowledge there's no support for this in the official part of the Android API provided by Google. I guess that unofficial methods would at least require root permissions. Unfortunately I have no rooted device with a finger print reader to make experiments.

Regards,
Martin

Thanks for your reply...loving your app.
Though I am in a spot of bother now.

My voice notifications in car mode won't execute with the finger print security on. (even if its added as a trusted Bluetioth device)

I've tested to see if it works without security and it does execute!

Anyway around this ?

[Martin]

I have no idea why this is happening or how this can be avoided. Are you using a Samsung device and the regular voice notifications?
You could try to build a flow that detect notifications (trigger Notification on Statusbar Displayed) and uses an action Speech Output to read out the message, however you would have to disable the car mode to ensure that not both apps are reading out the text message.

[Mar]

+1 for fingerprint implementation

[maxxyypoo]

I believe finger print support is possible, since there are apps out there that use Samsung's finger print. Like App Lock, https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... fe.applock
But I don't know how its done I'm not a developer, but if possible, thatd be nice if I could desable it at home and enable outside the house without root

[Randy Watson]

Any plans yet to include set state fingerprint scanner......cheers for the best app on Android.

[Martin]

Android 6 allows apps to use the fingerprint sensor to authenticate the user however it does not allow to switch the lock screen from swipe/PIN/password/pattern to fingerprint or the other way around.
Automagic could disable the fingerprint sensor with action Set Disabled Keyguard Features but this is probably not the desired feature since it still requires to unlock the device using PIN/password/...

[bogdyro]

I have a rooted Samsung note 5. The action 'disable slide to unlock' has no effect. I know that Samsung heavily modified stock android with their touchwiz but is there any workaround? Thanks Martin.

[Martin]

Action Execute Root Command with input keyevent POWER works on some devices. input swipe 0 1000 0 0 to swipe up might also work.

Regards,
Martin