Android Biometric Testing

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Overview

A majority of mobile devices today support Biometric hardware sensors to authenticate the device owner’s identity. Pcloudy enables you to test the Authentication features such as Touch ID/Face ID on the android devices connected on the Pcloudy platform.

Simply connect to a device on the platform and once the device is connected, the user can inject a passing or failing Touch ID or face ID, depending on the device model.

Pre-requisites:

  • App should stay in the foreground during testing
  • The application must be "instrumented" at time of installation on device.

Injecting a fingerprint or face ID manually

  1. Connect any android device and click on “Start” in the Logs tab to start the logs.
  2. In the Quick Actions section, click on "Install" and install the instrumented application on the connected device. Make sure that the app under test stays in the foreground.
  3. Once the Instrumented app is running and waiting on the biometric authentication screen, click on “Touch ID” on the right panel and process on the mobile device screen to authenticate.
  4. In the Touch ID option, do one of the following:
    • To test a successful Touch ID or Face ID, click on Pass
    • To test an invalid Touch ID or Face ID, click Fail