1️⃣ Getting started

In this short guide, you will learn how to integrate the Keyless SDK in your Android or iOS mobile application, and enroll and authenticate users through the Keyless platform.

Before jumping into your code editor, make sure that you're familiar with the various components of the authentication system, and common biometic authentication flows.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have both required API keys, and the list of productions hosts from your Keyless contact:

  • YOUR_CLOUDSMITH_TOKEN to download the SDK from cloudsmith repository

  • KEYLESS_API_KEY to configure the mobile SDK

  • KEYLESS_HOSTS a list of node URLs. Urls in KEYLESS_HOSTS must NOT contain any trailing slashes /.

Review the Keyless SDK requirements:

The Keyless SDK uses

Installation

Keyless Anti-Inject variant for enhanced frames injection prevention

If you are using the anti-inject SDK variant with runtime application self protection - RASP, you need to:

  • Set the package repository partners-rasp-* communicated to you by our Delivery team.

  • Add into your app assets the license file provided to you by our Delivery team.

  1. To allow Keyless to handle the result of registerForActivityResult, you must call Keyless from an Activity implementing ActivityResultCaller.

    Extend any androidX activity that implements the interface for you, for example let your Activity extend the generic ComponentActivity or the more widespread AppCompatActivity.

  2. If you use Proguard, add the following rules to your Proguard configuration file:

    # Keyless Proguard
-keep class io.keyless.sdk.** {*;}
-keepclassmembers class io.keyless.sdk.** {*;}

  3. In the the repositories section of the settings.gradle file of your Android application, add the following snippet, replacing YOUR_CLOUDSMITH_TOKEN with the CloudSmith token provided to you by Keyless.

    dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
    repositories {
        google()
        mavenCentral()
        maven {
            url "https://dl.cloudsmith.io/YOUR_CLOUDSMITH_TOKEN/keyless/partners/maven/"
        }
    }
}

  4. In the dependencies block of your project build.gradle file, typically app/build.gradle, add:

    dependencies {
// ...

implementation 'io.keyless:keyless-android-sdk:+'
}

  5. In the android block of your project build.gradle file, typically app/build.gradle, make sure you have the following options:

    android {
    // ...

    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }

    // add the following only if you're using Kotlin
    kotlinOptions {
        jvmTarget = "1.8"
    }
}

Essential configuration

There is some essential configuration to do before you can use the Keyless SDK.

  1. Initialize the Keyless SDK in your Application class:

    // MainApplication
override fun onCreate() {
    super.onCreate()
    // Initialize Keyless
    Keyless.initialize(this)
}

If your application crashes due to java.lang.IllegalStateException: Attempting to launch an unregistered ActivityResultLauncher or while using React/Native bridges you can't receive a completion result at the end of an enrollment, it may be due to a difference between your applicationId and the namespace of your activities.

In such case, the Keyless.initialize(...) accepts a second parameter which is the namespace you are currently using for your Activities. Providing this parameter should fix the issue.

Example: namespace: my.app.test applicationId: my.app.test.extra

  // MainApplication
  override fun onCreate() {
      super.onCreate()
      // Initialize Keyless
      Keyless.initialize(this, "my.app.test")
  }

Since we only check that the namespace of the Activity contains the namespace provided as input, .app or my.app are also valid inputs.

  1. Add your application to the Manifest

    <application
    ...
    android:name=".MainApplication"
    ...
</application>

  2. Configure the Keyless SDK from your MainActivity, ViewModel or any class you use to communicate with Keyless. Note that configure is asynchronous so wait for the completion callback before calling the next Keyless APIs

    The configure method requires a SetupConfig as parameter, as well as the KEYLESS_API_KEY and KEYLESS_HOSTS you received from Keyless. You should listen to the result as follows:

    val setupConfig = SetupConfig(
        apiKey = "KEYLESS_API_KEY",
        hosts = listOf("KEYLESS_HOSTS")
    )

 Keyless.configure(setupConfig) { result ->
    when (result) {
        is Keyless.KeylessResult.Success -> {
            Log.d("KeylessSDK", "configure success")
            // Keyless is ready, you can now call
            // enroll/authenticate/deEnroll ...
        }
        is Keyless.KeylessResult.Failure ->{
            Log.d("KeylessSDK", "configure error")
            // Inspect result.error for more info
         }
     }
 }

Additional configuration

As well as the essential configuration parameters, you can also specify the optional configuration parameters detailed in the following sections. Details of these configuration options can be summarised in the relevant sections throughout the Mobile SDK (i.e. Logging, Liveness Settings etc.) and you can inspect the Config class to see optional parameters (or the builder to see exposed methods). Some of the more the more generic configurations are described below for convenience.

Shared circuits

This is the target desired number of circuits kept on the server. To set this number use the numberOfSharedCircuits.

Networking module

If you need to perform network requests on behalf of the Keyless SDK, you can implement the KLNetworkingModule interface. Set the networkingModule parameter with an instance of the KLNetworkingModule:

public interface KLNetworkingModule {
    public fun sendHTTPRequest(
        baseUrl: String,
        path: String,
        method: String,
        headers: Map<String, String>,
        body: String
    ): KLHTTPResponse

    public data class KLHTTPResponse(
        val errorCode: Int,
        val httpCode: Int,
        val responseBody: String
    )
}

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