AutoIdent SDK - ReactNative module

Getting started

Install from NPM

// with npm
npm install @idnow/react-autoident

// with yarn
yarn add @idnow/react-autoident

Usage

You will have access to the following methods to communicate with the sdk.

    /**
    * Starts the native IDnow AI SDK for an identification session
    *
    * @param token - A string paramter representing the IdentificationToken
    */
    export function startIdent(token: string): string {
        return RNIdNowLibraryModule.startIdent(token);
    }

Android

The react-autoident library android module targets the latest Android 15 OS. In order to be compliant with the Google's requirements, please make sure that your android module from your host app targets the latest Android API level 35. In order to ensure full compatibility with our library, you need to add in your android/gradle.properties file the next lines:

android.minSdkVersion=24
android.compileSdkVersion=35
android.targetSdkVersion=35
expo.useLegacyPackaging=false

Tested with the following Gradle Versions:

classpath('com.android.tools.build:gradle:8.5.2') in project\'s build.gradle
distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.7-bin.zip in gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

Note: Since IDnow Android SDK targets Android 15 (API Level 35), when building your application, you might get a build error from expo-modules-core dependency:

node_modules/expo-modules-core/android/src/main/java/expo/modules/adapters/react/permissions/PermissionsService.kt:166:36 Only safe (?.) or non-null asserted (!!.) calls are allowed on a nullable receiver of type Array<(out) String!>?

In order to fix this, from your local node-modules dependencies open the PermissionsService.kt class and update the line 166 to the following:

return requestedPermissions?.contains(permission) == true

iOS

The react-autoident library ios module requires to run the following command

npx pod-install

Launching an identification

    import * as idnow from '@idnow/react-autoident';
    
    function launchAutoIdent(token: string) {
        idnow.startIdent(token);
    }