Android 14 is one of the year's key announcements, with a focus on AI-related capabilities and a host of user interface improvements. Google has also focused on security and privacy by declaring passkeys as the default, and the firm has now revealed that on November 1, it will launch Credential Manager, a new Android-specific API for storing credentials such as username and password combinations and passkeys.
For those who are unaware, the Credential Manager has been in preview for some time and was in control of centrally storing on Android phones the biometric authentication passkeys, conventional passwords, and federated identity login. Using this, the applications will be able to offer users easy biometric logins through passkeys and will reduce the hassle-free sign-in experience and the need to remember the passwords.
Google has been constantly pushing the Passkeys since the introduction of the concept in the annual developer event Google IO 2023.
Meanwhile, Google has already offered Android 14 to the existing Pixel lineup including the Pixel 8 series and the other smartphone makers including Samsung, Vivo, Oppo, and OnePlus are said to roll out the new operating system soon. The companies are already testing the beta version of the Android 14.
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