Fingertouch APK - turn your fingerprint sensor into capacitive HOME button (v1.2.5)

[Bwyan Benton]

any impact on battery life?

Been using it since yesterday. No difference in battery life for me.

 

[TechnoTew]

Unable to parse apk.

I wrote a little app for myself which turns the fingerprint sensor on Galaxy S7 Edge into a capacitive Home button - so you don't need to press the button physically, just touch it like a sensoric button. There are already similar apps on the Play Store, however none of them have an option to quickly enable/disable the service via Quick Settings custom tile (Android 7+ feature). It's a useful feature, because if you need to authenticate with your fingerprint in any app, it's needed to disable the service temporary.

App service runs in foreground thus there is a persistent notification placed in the notification bar. You can quickly pause/disable the service from this notification, or better use the Quick Settings custom tile. If you don't like the persistent notification, just hold you finger on the notification - notification setting will be opened and you can disable it (notification will be hidden but app still works fine).

Android 7+ is required, I'm using the app for several days already and there were no issues and no battery impact. I recommend to exclude the app from battery saving options to prevent it being killed by the system.

This app rely on Samsung SDK so it will probably work only on official or modified official firmware.

Source code is available here: https://sourceforge.net/p/fingertouchapp/code/ci/master/tree/

I am unable to parse the apk on a unofficial samsung modded ROM

 

[xdamember143]

Still cannot get camera to open on double tap :/

 

[Averell]

Double taps for camera is still working in my case. What's wrong with my S7?

 

[FacSBe]

Works fine for me
Excelent App

 

[the_prody01]

Do not you run in Custom Rom S8? ????????

Enviado desde mi SM-G955F mediante Tapatalk

 

[Kholargol]

Good app indeed. I wish I could be able to hide the notification icon and the "Fingertouch Service is running" in lock screen..

 

[OttomanTR]

Im tested Note5 working good. Hope will be added later Google Pixel style swipe notif bar

 

[jal3223]

Good app indeed. I wish I could be able to hide the notification icon and the "Fingertouch Service is running" in lock screen..

You should be able to go into app info and disable notifications. It will still work properly without them.

 

[Kholargol]

I did and it seems to work. I feel like it's a native feature now

 

[palmerx]

This is a great app. Works like a charm on my S7 edge.

Quick question though. Is it just me or did the phone use to vibrate when unlocking it using fingerprint? Now when I unlock the phone it does not vibrate, and I don't remember for sure but I think it used to do it before installing this apk. Can anyone please confirm? Thank you in advance.

 

[rowain]

It's a great app really! But the thing is that it works like the back button. It does not take you directly to home screen wherever you are.

 

[alekzsan]

It's a great app really! But the thing is that it works like the back button. It does not take you directly to home screen wherever you are.

It does.

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[rowain]

It does.

For me it doesn't

 

[rikipy]

work fine, the double tap for open the camera dont work?

 

[ehaque_243]

I am getting a fingertouch is not supported on this device warning.
Currently on RR (7.1.1) and fire opal kernel. S7 edge.

 

[xtcislove]

I am getting a fingertouch is not supported on this device warning.
Currently on RR (7.1.1) and fire opal kernel. S7 edge.

Any chance that this get expanded to other devices?

 

[XDevOS]

I am getting a fingertouch is not supported on this device warning.
Currently on RR (7.1.1) and fire opal kernel. S7 edge.

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[ucielda]

Hello. I can't download the apk. thanks in advance

 

[GalaxyHD]

Double tap for active camera not work..