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Biometric Authentication on remote devices

Important: This feature is available only under Team Pro and Enterprise Pro plans. For more details, check out our pricing page.

Biometric authentication is a process of enhancing security of applications by using biological or behavioral attributes of individuals to verify their identity. Examples of biometric authentication include fingerprint scanning, facial recognition, DNA matching, retina scanning, etc.

App Live enables you to test your apps that require biometric authentication, by using the Biometric Authentication setting on select remote BrowserStack devices.

Note: You can enable the Biometric Authentication, Image Injection, and Device Passcode settings together in the same test session on App Live.

In this guide, you learn about:

Supported devices and apps

App Live supports Biometric Authentication on the following devices:

Devices running Android OS 6 and higher.

Devices running iOS 13 and higher.

The devices that do not support testing with Biometric Authentication appear grayed out in the device listing on the App Live dashboard.

App Live supports testing of the following types of apps using Biometric Authentication:

Enable Biometric Authentication setting for your app

Important: App Live does not support testing of apps that use code obfuscation tools like Proguard, using Biometric Authentication. Ensure that you disable obfuscation before uploading your app on App Live.

To enable Biometric Authentication:

  1. Log in to the App Live dashboard.
  2. On the App Live dashboard, upload your app from the left panel.
  3. After your app is uploaded, click the configuration icon next to the file name of your app. Configuration icon
  4. Under App Configurations, enable Biometric Authentication. Biometric Authentication toggle on
  5. Select your device from the list of available devices in the device listing on the right panel, to launch your test session.
Important: To test your app using Biometric Authentication, ensure that you disable the iOS Entitlements setting under App Configurations. App Live does not support testing of iOS apps with both the iOS Entitlements and Biometric Authentication settings enabled.

To enable Biometric Authentication:

  1. Log in to the App Live dashboard.
  2. On the App Live dashboard, upload your app from the left panel.
  3. After your app is uploaded, click the configuration icon next to the file name of your app. Configuration icon
  4. Under App Configurations, enable Biometric Authentication. Biometric Authentication toggle on
  5. Select your device from the list of available devices in the device listing on the right panel, to launch your test session.

Your setup session takes up to 60 seconds to complete.

Test your app using Biometric Authentication

Prerequisite:
Enable Biometric Authentication setting for your app.

To test your app:

  1. In your app, trigger the biometric authentication workflow.
  2. On the Biometric Authentication prompt, click Pass or Fail to test authentication success or failure scenarios respectively.
Note: On iOS, if the Biometric Authentication prompt does not show up and the test passes automatically, then contact our Support team.

Authentication Pass or Fail

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