Determine if biometric hardware is present and the user has enrolled biometrics on Android P

Question

I\'m asked to show certain UI elements depending on the presence of biometric hardware. For Android 23-27 I use FingerprintManager#isHardwareDetected() and

Answer 1

For those who do not want to wait for support library released, you can use nightly build like this

repositories {
        maven {
            url "https://ci.android.com/builds/submitted/5795878/androidx_snapshot/latest/repository/"
        }
    }

implementation group: 'androidx.biometric', name: 'biometric', version: '1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'

get build version from here

https://ci.android.com/builds/branches/aosp-androidx-master-dev/

branch aosp-androidx-master-dev

show latest build from androidx-snapshot