How to open the notification and block the smartphone swipe of a fingerprint scanner

Today, a growing number of smart phones equipped with fingerprint scanners, which are used to unlock the device. The new gadgets from Google's scanner can be used for other actions, such as to open the notifications panel. A small tool, which you will learn from this article, carries this feature on any device running Android 6.0 or higher.

Fingerprint Quick Action - is a simple program created by the user with the nickname XDA forum ztc1997, which gives a fingerprint scanner advanced features. With its help, you can use the swipe of a scanner, to go to the home screen, lock the device, or open the curtain notifications. The latter feature is especially like the owners of large smartphones as save them from having to reach for the top of the screen.

In the settings you can choose an action to activate the display of notifications of errors and run the utility as a background process, it would be helpful if you have the aggressive killer tasks.

Note also the option Work-around for Fingerprint to Unlock. It must be activated for those users who use a fingerprint for its intended purpose, that is to unlock the device. Otherwise, each time have to enter a PIN or password.

Fingerprint Quick Action utility distributed free of charge to page Developer and should work on any device running Android Marshmallow above.

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