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Android Manufacturers with its own fingerprint / face . id SDK

I am developing an app that uses fingerprint or face id to authenticate user.

Since 6.0 Marshmellow, Android includes the API to ease out the implementation of fingerprint sensors.

Is there a list of all the devices that are not compatible with this API? either because they were developed pre 6.0 or because their OEMs still doesn't want to use the Google API.

Or how do one know how to support the maximum amount of devices?

Solution

  • In case anyone wonders, the only devices that fall into this are:

    Samsung Galaxy S5
Samsung Galaxy S5 mini
Samsung Galaxy S5 plus
Samsung Galaxy Note 4
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge

    All are samsung and can be validated with the deprecated Pass SDK.

    After Android M was announced all manufactured devices with fingerprint sensor are compatible with Google fingerprint API.

    Also, all devices with face unlock are compatible with Google Pie biometrics API and no OEM developed its own SDK.