Finger print passthrough

As a returning user after the N900 and N9 I wonder the following. As SF supports finger print unlocking and it has AAS, would it be possible to use finger print in AAS? Let’s say I have a banking app for which I have to supply username and password, the username and password are stored in a password vault and upon opening the banking application the credentials are prefilled after finger print scanning.

Did search the topic but could not find a similar request.

Then a second topic which I throw also here due to space saving. I know there is some kind of power saving when SF is idle e.g. let’s say screen off. Is this done by off-lining cpu cores or any other different way?

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Fingerprint scanner passthrough is not yet implemented. It is one of many reasons I don’t use SFOS as daily driver anymore.

Hopefully, it will be implemented some day!

I just tried the two applications for electronic identification that I use on Xperia 10 II with SFOS, and none of them can use fingerprinting.

well it would be a nice to have I guess

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Yes, but for me it is not a dealbreaker. I manage happily with my PIN-code.

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It is technically possible, now with their new phone + AIDL direction makes it more likely than before because it’s cleaner and fits Jolla’s current HAL modernization efforts. However, it still requires meaningful engineering effort (especially building a proper bridge between the native sailfish-fpd and the Android biometric service inside the LXC container).

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Adding another vote to support this request. This is imo a real quality of life feature that is lacking and would surely help adoption rates if implemented.

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Writing here to express support too!

In the blog post Jolla asked us to use Github issues, and this surely qualifies for an entry: Issues · sailfishos/issue-tracker · GitHub

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I’ve added it as an issue. Please vote it up!

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