androiddetectfingerprintbiometrics

Android fingerprint detect new finger added


How to detect if the user add new fingerprint to Android settings after he/she authenticate finger inside my application ?

i.e. iOS have something called (evaluatedPolicyDomainState) to detect changes in fingerprint catalog what is the alternative in Android ?

This require for security reasons to prompt password in this case


Solution

  • From the documentation for setUserAuthenticationRequired:

    The key will become irreversibly invalidated once the secure lock screen is disabled (reconfigured to None, Swipe or other mode which does not authenticate the user) or when the secure lock screen is forcibly reset (e.g., by a Device Administrator). Additionally, if the key requires that user authentication takes place for every use of the key, it is also irreversibly invalidated once a new fingerprint is enrolled or once no more fingerprints are enrolled, unless setInvalidatedByBiometricEnrollment(boolean) is used to allow validity after enrollment. Attempts to initialize cryptographic operations using such keys will throw KeyPermanentlyInvalidatedException.

    So to check if any new fingerprints have been enrolled since you created your fingerprint-associated key, just create a cipher with that key and try to init the cipher. If any new fingerprints have been enrolled, the init call should trigger a KeyPermanentlyInvalidatedException.