ReactNative: Local Authenticate [FaceID/TouchID] (Android/iOS)

ℹ️ This is a fork of prscX/react-native-local-authenticate with some specific tweaks and may be removed ℹ️

Differences from prscX/react-native-local-authenticate

• More idiomatic naming convention
• Fixed resolve types (resolves with boolean instead of integers)
• TypeScript types

These improvements may be contributed to the original project at some point, and this fork can then be removed.

📖 Getting started

$ npm install react-native-local-authenticate-improved --save

RN60 >= RNLA V1 >

RN60 above please use react-native-local-authenticate-improved V1 and above

• iOS

iOS Prerequisite: Please make sure CocoaPods is installed on your system

- Add the following to your `Podfile` -> `ios/Podfile` and run pod update:

  use_native_modules!

  pod 'RNLocalAuthenticate', :path => '../node_modules/react-native-local-authenticate-improved/ios'

• Android

Please add below permission to your app AndroidManifest

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW"/>
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_BIOMETRIC"/>

RN60 < RNLA V1 <

RN60 below please use react-native-local-authenticate-improved V.0.*

$ react-native link react-native-local-authenticate-improved

• Android

  • Please add below script in your build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        maven { url "https://maven.google.com" }
        ...
    }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        jcenter()
        maven { url "https://maven.google.com" }
        ...
    }
}

Note

• Android SDK 27 > is supported

💬 Usage

import LocalAuthenticate from 'react-native-local-authenticate-improved'

LocalAuthenticate.hasHardware().then((hasHardware) => {
})

LocalAuthenticate.isEnrolled().then((isEnrolled) => {
})

LocalAuthenticate.supportedAuthenticationTypes().then((isEnrolled) => {
})

LocalAuthenticate.authenticate('reason').then((isEnrolled) => {
})

💡 Props

• General(iOS & Android)

Prop	Type	Default	Note
hasHardware:Promise	bool		Used to check for hardware capability
isEnrolled:Promise	bool		Used to check enrolled for FaceID/TouchID
authenticate	bool		Used to authenticate user using FaceId/TouchID

• Android

Prop	Type	Default	Note
cancelAuthenticate	``	true	Used to cancel ongoing authentication

• iOS

Prop	Type	Default	Note
supportedAuthenticationTypes	array		Used to check supported authentication types

✨ Credits

• Expo: Local Authentication

🤔 How to contribute

Have an idea? Found a bug? Please raise to ISSUES. Contributions are welcome and are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

📜 License

This library is provided under the Apache 2 License.

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