<p>Now a day, we have seen that most of our Android phone contains fingerprint authentication. And we can implement that fingerprint authentication in our app so to secure our app as much as we can. In this article, we will take a look at the implementation of fingerprint authentication.</p>
<h3 id="heading-what-is-authentication">What is authentication?</h3>
<p>Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it says it is. ... For purposes of user identity, users are typically identified with a user ID, and authentication occurs when the user provides credentials such as a password that matches their user ID.</p>
<h3 id="heading-types-of-authentication">Types of authentication?</h3>
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<li><p>BIOMETRIC_STRONG<br />Learn here :-<a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/biometric/BiometricManager.Authenticators#BIOMETRIC_STRONG" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">developer.android.com/reference/androidx/bi..</a></p>
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<li><p>BIOMETRIC_WEAK.<br /> Learn here:- <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/biometric/BiometricManager.Authenticators#BIOMETRIC_WEAK" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">developer.android.com/reference/androidx/bi..</a></p>
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<li><p>DEVICE_CREDENTIAL.<br /> Learn <a href="here:-https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/biometric/BiometricManager.Authenticators#DEVICE_CREDENTIAL" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">here:-https://developer.android.com/referen..</a></p>
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<h3 id="heading-source-code">Source code:-</h3>
<p> Github:- <a href="https://github.com/anuj0612/fingerprint-auth" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-url" target="_blank">github.com/anuj0612/fingerprint-auth</a></p>
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Please give star on Github if code is use full for you.</p>
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Now a day, we have seen that most of our Android phone contains fingerprint authentication. And we can implement that fingerprint authentication in our app so to secure our app as much as we can. In this article, we will take a look at the implementation of fingerprint authentication.

### What is authentication?

Authentication is the process of determining whether someone or something is, in fact, who or what it says it is. ... For purposes of user identity, users are typically identified with a user ID, and authentication occurs when the user provides credentials such as a password that matches their user ID.

### Types of authentication? 

1. BIOMETRIC_STRONG     
   Learn here :-https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/biometric/BiometricManager.Authenticators#BIOMETRIC_STRONG

2. BIOMETRIC_WEAK.        
    Learn here:- https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/biometric/BiometricManager.Authenticators#BIOMETRIC_WEAK

3. DEVICE_CREDENTIAL.     
    Learn here:-https://developer.android.com/reference/androidx/biometric/BiometricManager.Authenticators#DEVICE_CREDENTIAL


### Source code:- 
 Github:- https://github.com/anuj0612/fingerprint-auth


Note:
Please give star on Github if code is use full for you.


Thank you :)


Fingerprint authentication

What is authentication?

Types of authentication?

Source code:-