User authentication
BlackBerry UEM
offers the following options to adjust the user experience for accessing BlackBerry
Dynamics
apps.Fingerprint and biometric authentication
Various forms of biometric authentication are supported by the
BlackBerry
Dynamics
SDK, including fingerprint authentication and for Android
and Touch ID
and Face ID
for iOS
. The BlackBerry UEM
administrator can use a BlackBerry
Dynamics
profile (UEM
) to enable biometric authentication. Contact your organization’s administrator to enable and configure these features.For more information, see
BlackBerry
Dynamics
and Fingerprint Authentication.Authentication delegation
The
BlackBerry UEM
administrator can configure up to three BlackBerry
Dynamics
apps on users’ devices to act as an authentication delegate (a primary, secondary, and tertiary delegate). When a user opens any BlackBerry
Dynamics
app, the device will display the login screen of the authentication delegate app. After the user logs in successfully, all of the BlackBerry
Dynamics
apps on the device are unlocked. The user does not need to enter a password again until the idle timeout is reached.If you want your custom
BlackBerry
Dynamics
app to be an authentication delegate, the UEM
administrator must specify the app package ID (Android
) or bundle ID (iOS
) in the BlackBerry
Dynamics
app settings in the management console. Contact your organization’s administrator to provide this information. For instructions for specifying the package ID or bundle ID for an app, see Manage settings for a BlackBerry Dynamics app in the UEM Administration Guide
.The administrator configures one or more authentication delegate using a
BlackBerry
Dynamics
profile. It is a best practice to configure the most commonly used app as the authentication delegate. Contact your organization’s administrator to configure one or more authentication delegates.
If the administrator configures a secondary authentication delegate, the administrator must notify users that if they delete the primary authentication delegate app, the user must unlock the secondary delegate app and set the app password again so that it can be used to authenticate any additional
BlackBerry
Dynamics
apps. The same requirement applies if a tertiary delegate is configured and the primary and secondary delegate apps are deleted.Do not require a password
Enabled using a
BlackBerry
Dynamics
profile, this setting removes the password login for BlackBerry
Dynamics
apps. Users cannot choose whether to use a password.Do not enable authentication delegation and this setting in the same profile or policy set. This feature is supported in
UEM
12.7 or later. If the setting is enabled and then disabled at a later date, users are prompted to create a password the next time they log in to a BlackBerry
Dynamics
app.You can use the GDAndroid.getInstance().canAuthorizeAutonomously() or [GDiOS sharedInstance].canAuthorizeAutonomously method to check if this feature is enabled. See the GDInteraction sample app (Android) or the SecureStore sample app (iOS) for examples of this method.
Bypass the app unlock screen
Enabled in the
UEM Client
settings for a specific BlackBerry
Dynamics
app (UEM
), this setting allows an app to completely bypass the password login screen.For more information and programming guidance, see the Bypass Unlock Developer Guide.
Background Authorize for
iOS
Background Authorize is a restricted API that allows a recently locked
BlackBerry
Dynamics
app to use the principal BlackBerry Dynamics APIs (such as secure storage and secure communication) when the app is running in the background.This feature can be useful in scenarios where the app has stopped unexpectedly and is started in the background in response to an APNS message (for example, a new email). If Background Authorize is enabled, the app can download new data and store it in the secure container. When the user brings the app to the foreground they can authorize and immediately access the data (for example, messages).
To access this restricted API, submit a request to the
BlackBerry
Dynamics
Registrar program at BlackBerryDynamicsRegistrar@blackberry.com.For more information about this feature, see the Background Authorize Developer Guide.
Background Authorize for Android
GDAndroid.canAuthorizeAutonomously allows
BlackBerry
Dynamics
apps to background unlock, receive state callback, and use credential-protected storage. The app can use canAuthorizeAutonomously() to check if it is possible to use background unlock, and if possible, authorize with serviceInit().Web Authentication
The SDK supports ASWebAuthenticationSession. The
BlackBerry
Dynamics
implementation of ASWebAuthenticationSession utilizes BlackBerry
Dynamics
secure communication and secure storage for cookies. To protect enterprise credentials from being stored in the iOS
keychain, the device user will not be able to use the Safari
saved passwords feature in the embedded webview.Initialize an instance of ASWebAuthenticationSession in your app to allow user authentication through a web service, including those operated by a third party. The page will open in a secure, embedded webview in
iOS
, or the users default browser (if it supports web authentication sessions) on macOS
. For more information, see Authenticating a User Through a Web Service.