Layers-capacitor-biometric-auth NPM

Capacitor Biometric Auth

Installation

npm i capacitor-biometric-auth
yarn add capacitor-biometric-auth

Usage

import { Plugins } from "@capacitor/core";

const { BiometricAuth } = Plugins;

const available = await BiometricAuth.isAvailable()

if (available.has) {
  const authResult = await BiometricAuth.verify({...})
  if (authResult.verified) {
    // success authentication
  } else {
    // fail authentication
  }
} else {
  // biometric not available
}

Methods

verify(options)

Open biometric popup

option	values	decription
reason	any string	Popup label

const result = await BiometricAuth.verify({reason: "Message ..."})

result

{
  verified: true // true if biometric auth was succes or false otherwise,
  status: {} // an object with errors matching biometric auth fails (on if verified === false)
}

status

error	description
10	The user failed to provide valid credentials
11	Authentication was cancelled by application
12	The context is invalid
13	Not interactive
14	Passcode is not set on the device
15	Authentication was cancelled by the system
16	The user did cancel
17	The user chose to use the fallback

isAvailable()

Checks if biometric is enabled

const result = await BiometricAuth.isAvailable()

result

{
  has: true, // true if has biometric auth enabled, false otherwise
  status: {...} // an object with errors
}

status

error	description
1	Biometric not available
2	Authentication could not continue because the user has been locked out of biometric authentication, due to failing authentication too many times.
3	Authentication could not start because the user has not enrolled in biometric authentication.

capacitor plugin native

@capacitor/core

@zalastax/nolb-lay

0.0.7

5 years ago