SLock is an open source Android lock screen with a gesture recognition algorithm implemented from scratch.
The task of checking if two gestures match is equivalent to checking the similarity of two sets of points. Before comparing the two sets, we normalize them; we move the sets so that the first point of each set is (0,0) and then we resize each set to fit in a predefined frame. SLock uses a simple point sets similarity measure. Let A be the set of points of the saved gesture and B the set of points of the drawn gesture to unlock the device. To measure the similarity of the two sets we use this formula:
where:
What we get from this formula is a measure of distance between the two sets in pixels. If this distance is above a predefined threshold then the gesture in accepted as correct.
The app has a strange bug possibly related to the lock mechanism that disables the home button. After a few minutes of leaving the device locked (~10min) the app crashes. Anyone who fixes this bug will become a collaborator. Also the app will be uploaded to Google Play as soon as this bug is fixed.