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Android adding fingerprint support excludes some devices in play store

My android app supports minimumSDKVersion 19. Later we added fingerprint support and with following permissions 

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT" />
<uses-feature
        android:name="android.hardware.fingerprint"
        android:required="false" />

The app's targetSdkVersion is 27. When publishing a new version of the application in the play store many devices are excluded.

Can someone help me out whether any other manifest configuration needed to be added? enter image description here

Solution

  • Instead of using

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT" />

    use below permission to support backward compatibility and it will not exclude devices when publishing in play store.

    <uses-permission-sdk-23 android:name="android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT" />