Finger print option

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Hi,
I want to add Finger print option in my ODK Form .From the phone's fingerprint sensor.

Please guide me.

Advance Thanks.

Regards,

[danbjoseph]

If you search for fingerprint, you’ll see that this comes up a lot. This would require a custom external app that interacts with the fingerprint scanner and provides the identity information back to ODK Collect. See https://opendatakit.org/help/form-design/external-apps/

This thread has more details:

Feeding fingerprint data from reader to ODK Collect?

A study I'm working on would like to be able to launch a fingerprint reader in our data collection form and then feed the binary fingerprint data from the external app back into the form. A pilot version of the study had done this in a Windows based system previously (prior to my involvement), but for the new study we are transitioning to ODK Collect for a variety of reasons. We inherited wired DigitalPersona 4500 Fingerprint Readers which have an SDK available for Android. Please note, I am a …

[seadowg]

Also as a heads up: I don't think you'll be able to use the fingerprint sensor on an Android phone to get hold of fingerprint data. They are really only for security and so the Phone/OS handles all the fingerprint storage/matching and apps don't have access to any of it.

To read fingerprints you'll need a third party external scanner.