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AndroidAppLockscreen: drop a PIN lockscreen into any Android app in minutes

DEV Community·Fayaz Bin Salam·17 days ago
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most android apps that need any kind of auth go straight to biometrics or firebase. fine — but what if you just need a simple PIN lockscreen? no backend, no cloud calls, just "enter your code to continue". that's what AndroidAppLockscreen does. i built it after copy-pasting the same lockscreen implementation across three different projects. the design is inspired by Diary — clean, minimal, nothing fancy. what it handles set password check password on launch change password disable password forgot password flow customisable background color setup add the JitPack repo and one dependency: implementation 'com.github.p32929:AndroidAppLockscreen:1.2' Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode extend your activities with LockscreenHandler , then in MainActivity 's onCreate : EasyLock . checkPassword ( this ); Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode first launch, no password set → does nothing. password set → blocks app until correct code is entered. managing passwords after that: EasyLock .…

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