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    IOS Touch ID

    I have been playing with the UX IOS Touch ID template. In testing, it seems to work great. But it almost looks like it is just verifying your fingerprint, and allowing you into the application, not taking into regard any kind of username/password credentials that allows you into the app. So to me it almost seems like it is skipping the step of actually authenticating with a valid username/password. Has anyone implemented this into their apps? Curious what others have done.
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    Re: IOS Touch ID

    Here is the javascript from the touch ID template:

    function initialize() {
    StatusBar.overlaysWebView(false);
    StatusBar.styleDefault();

    setTimeout(function() {
    var pObj = {dialog.object}.getPanelObject();
    pObj.resize();
    },100);


    // enable or disable fingerprint scan button
    var ele = $('{dialog.ComponentName}.V.R1.BUTTON_2');
    window.plugins.touchid.isAvailable(
    function() {console.log('Fingerprint scanner is available.');ele.disabled = false;},
    function() {console.log('Fingerprint scanner is not available.');ele.disabled = true;ele.innerHTML='No Scanner Detected'}
    );
    }

    function verifyIdentity() {
    window.plugins.touchid.verifyFingerprint('Verify your ID',
    function() {
    console.log('ID verified.');
    {dialog.object}.panelSetActive('PANELCARD_2',true);

    },
    function(e) {
    console.log('ID verification failed');
    navigator.notification.alert('ID verification failed: ' + JSON.stringify(e));
    }
    );
    }



    Just seems to me like this is not interacting with any type of login at all, but just verifying a fingerprint and going to a different panel. Anybody know how to make this interact with persistent login?

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      #3
      Re: IOS Touch ID

      I don't have any experience setting this up but will need to in the next few weeks. Seeing how other apps do it such as banking, I think you need to present the user a login screen where they input userID then the touchID script runs to verify the fingerprint. Essentially touchID is just a faster, more secure password but the magic is put into the app itself when you, the developer, ask a user for permission to use previously setup touchID. I don't know yet how that works.

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        #4
        Re: IOS Touch ID

        Hi,
        I'm only guessing here but it would seem you might have to do this.

        First have a panel card giving the user the option of using Touch ID and store that in a small encrypted table included with your app. The table would have at least these fields in it:

        touchID, logical
        username, character
        userpassword, character

        Then your app would first check this table to see if touch ID is enabled, if so, then run the javascript shown above with the addition of an ajax callback that would do an auto login using the fields above after the ID is verified or have it call a panel card that would do the auto login.

        Again, that is only a guess.

        Mike
        Mike Reed
        Phoenix, AZ

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          #5
          Re: IOS Touch ID

          Has anyone tried this anymore to see how to tie the touch id to specific user credentials? So when a user uses the touch id then the user will be logged in and data is filtered based on that specific user?

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            #6
            Re: IOS Touch ID

            I stopped pursuing this, I never could figure out how to make it work. And I never could find any examples in the forum of anyone that has done it. I'm sure it can be done, but the UX template provided by Alpha is incomplete in my opinion, and doesn't really use touch ID in a practical way.

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              #7
              Re: IOS Touch ID

              Ok, instead of using Touch ID, can it be set up to let the user remember the username so they don’t have to type that in all the time when they login?

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                #8
                Re: IOS Touch ID

                Check out the Persistent Login UX Component template in Alpha. It has all of that set up in the template already. It will allow the user to log in once, and then never have to log in again.

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