package android.hardware.fingerprint does not exist

[DanceSC]

I am having a similar issue to this thread: https://github.com/mjwheatley/cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth/issues/71

After adding the "cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth" plugin. I couldn't get it to build without errors, after some researching and testing of different gradle builds I updated the gradle classpath to gradle:2.3.2 and it prompted me with " we strongly recommend that you update the Android Gradle plugin to version 3.0.1 and Gradle to version 4.1." I clicked "Update" and it seems like nothing has happened, but this is what I have:

File->Settings->Build,Execution,Deployment->Gradle is set to "Use default gradle wrapper (recommended)" File->ProjectStructure->Project Gradle version: 4.1 Android Plugin Version: (empty)

On build.gradle (Module: android):

dependencies { classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.2' } task wrapper(type: Wrapper) { gradleVersion = '2.3.2' }

On gradle-wrapper.properties: distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.1-all.zip

On AndroidManifest.xml:

When I click Run these are just some of the errors that I get: Error:(19, 36) error: package android.hardware.fingerprint does not exist Error:(21, 33) error: package android.security.keystore does not exist Error:(22, 33) error: package android.security.keystore does not exist Error:(71, 13) error: cannot find symbol class FingerprintManager Error:(581, 58) error: package FingerprintManager does not exist

Any advise?

[mjwheatley]

Does it work if you don't update the gradle plugin and keep using 2.3.2?

[DanceSC]

I couldn't get it to work on any version. I ended up updating the version to 2.3.2 and still no luck. I just changed it back to 2.3.2 to see...

[DanceSC]

Should my minSdkVersion or targetSdkVersion be higher than 14 and 22 respectively? I have my project gradle version currently set to 3.3 and the build.gradle files are using the classpath com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.3.2

[mjwheatley]

You need to Target SDK 23 or higher.

[DanceSC]

Okay! Trying that now

[DanceSC]

Am I doing this right? I am still getting the same error messages as before <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="23" android:targetSdkVersion="26" />

[DanceSC]

in FingerprintAuth.java these 4 lines are the first one that are giving me issues:

import android.hardware.fingerprint.FingerprintManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.security.keystore.KeyGenParameterSpec;
import android.security.keystore.KeyProperties;

[mjwheatley]

Please report if the following works for you.

cordova android --version

7.1.0

cordova create fingerprint-auth com.example.android.fingerprint.auth FingerprintAuth
cd fingerprint-auth
cordova platform add android
cordova run android

fingerprint-auth/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk/android-debug.apk Package name: com.example.android.fingerprint.auth LAUNCH SUCCESS

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth

Installing "cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth" for android ANDROID_HOME=/Users/mjwheatley/Library/Android/sdk JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_101.jdk/Contents/Home Subproject Path: CordovaLib The Task.leftShift(Closure) method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 5.0. Please use Task.doLast(Action) instead. at build_aajdgym9qzqw7kh0fv4shjz41.run(/Users/mjwheatley/Development/Cordova/apps/fingerprint-auth/platforms/android/build.gradle:141) The JavaCompile.setDependencyCacheDir() method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 4.0. Incremental java compilation is an incubating feature. The TaskInputs.source(Object) method has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 4.0. Please use TaskInputs.file(Object).skipWhenEmpty() instead. :clean :CordovaLib:clean

BUILD SUCCESSFUL

Total time: 1.492 secs Adding cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth to package.json Saved plugin info for "cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth" to config.xml

[DanceSC]

cordova android --version returns 5.3.3, let me look into updating that

[DanceSC]

That worked! I had to install a newer version of node js in order to run

npm install -g cordova@latest

and I got LAUNCH SUCCESS and BUILD SUCCESS after both the

cordova android run

and

cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-android-fingerprint-auth

When I load the project in Android Studio it still prompts me with "To take advantage of all the latest features (such as Instant Run), improvements and security fixes, we strongly recommend that yo update the Android Gradle plugin to version 3.0.1 and Gradle to version 4.1"

Thank you so much for your help! It looks like it was the Android version and issues with my Gradle versions.

When I opened it in Android Studios I got a couple errors saying:

unable to resolve dependency for ':@debug/compileclasspath': could not resolve project :cordovalib. could not resolve project :cordovalib.

I found the issue, when updating to Android 3.0 there were still migration issues in my build.gradle file. For anyone who is having similar issues, this is what fixed the unable to resolve dependency issues: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33718663/gradle-error-configuration-declares-dependency-which-is-not-declared

[mjwheatley]

Glad you got it working.