Biometrics and iBeacon with Swift
Apple introduced biometric scanning with the iPhone 5S, and while it was originally used to unlock the phone, it was intended to be much more useful than that as cloud technology grew. The additional layer of fingerprint authentication provides additional security and potential access to information in the cloud.
For retail POS systems, the iBeacon, combined with biometric scanning, enables retailers to improve the customer experience in store. They can send virtual greetings and inform them of special promotions based on pre-recorded customer choices captured through the beacon. With support for iOS 7, developers can integrate these features into a variety of technologies.
Swift and biometrics
Swift has been upgraded to Swift 2 and Apple has released XCode 6 along with Cocoa and Cocoa Touch and OS X. With all these new development tools, developers can write safe code with mechanisms to cause all variables to be initialized before the first access. The TouchID Fingerprint API for Swift is available in iOS 8 for developers. Now they can play with the technology and integrate it for various purposes in applications.
Local Authentication with Biometrics under Swift
Local Authentication Context (LA), as defined by Apple, “authentication contexts are used to evaluate authentication policies, allowing applications to prompt the user to authenticate using personal information, such as a registered fingerprint with Touch ID”. They further state: “Policies may have requirements that must be met to have any chance of successfully authenticating. For example, a policy requiring biometrics would require TouchID to be enabled and fingerprints to be enrolled. The return value of this method can change over time, so you should not store this value for future use in your application. The value is guaranteed to remain constant until your application goes into the background.”
Online shopping and much more
With the secure coverage of Swift-back biometric authentication on the Apple device, online shoppers can enjoy an easier authentication process that’s also quick. Additionally, customers can track other developer apps through the fingerprint scanner in the iTunes App Store without going through the tedious process of entering passwords and making a purchase. In addition, the cloud-based application, documentation and data will also receive additional security with these technologies.
Fingerprint scanning is used as one of the most secure modes for authentication, and its easy access for people will give them confidence to freely share their data with retailers or store it on their servers for future use without worrying about data breach. security.
