From CNET: Google's next update to its Android operating system could come with a new security feature: full support for fingerprint sensors.
At the Google I/O conference next week, Google will unveil native fingerprint authentication support in its expected Android M operating system, BuzzFeed News is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of its plans. If that's true, it would suggest that Google will launch an application programming interface (API) for fingerprint-sensing to developers, so they can incorporate fingerprint authentication into their apps.
The idea of Google actually launching native fingerprint support, however, is predicated on the company launching Android M. The company has yet to confirm it will announce that next version of its operating system for mobile devices, the expected follow-on to Android Lollipop, which Google released in late 2014. That said, in a developer breakout session posted to Google's I/O site that has since been taken down, Google mentioned Android M in its description.
Native fingerprint support would be a key addition to Android and help it catch up to Apple's iOS software, which already supports the company's Touch ID fingerprint sensing across both the operating system and third-party apps.
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