credentials

This library provides unified access to a user's credentials. This can include passwords, passkeys and federated credentials. This library should be used to provide seamless and secure sign-in experiences.

Latest Update	Stable Release	Release Candidate	Beta Release	Alpha Release
May 7, 2025	1.5.0	-	-	1.6.0-alpha01

Declaring dependencies

To add a dependency on credentials, you must add the Google Maven repository to your project. Read Google's Maven repository for more information.

Add the dependencies for the artifacts you need in the build.gradle file for your app or module:

Kotlin

dependencies {
    implementation("androidx.credentials:credentials:1.6.0-alpha01")

    // optional - needed for credentials support from play services, for devices running
    // Android 13 and below.
    implementation("androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.6.0-alpha01")
}

Groovy

dependencies {
    implementation "androidx.credentials:credentials:1.6.0-alpha01"

    // optional - needed for credentials support from play services, for devices running
    // Android 13 and below.
    implementation "androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.6.0-alpha01"
}

For more information about dependencies, see Add build dependencies.

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Credentials e2ee Version 1.0.

Version 1.0.0-alpha02

April 17, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials-e2ee:1.0.0-alpha02 is released. This version contains source jars that were missing from the previous release.

Version 1.0.0-alpha01

April 3, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials-e2ee:1.0.0-alpha01 is released. Version 1.0.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

Support for creating an IdentityKey from a passkey (Iba31e)

Version 1.6

Version 1.6.0-alpha01

May 7, 2025

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.6.0-alpha01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.6.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.6.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

Passkey conditional create - Enables the passkey conditional create feature, whereby developers can request for a conditional passkey creation. A conditional creation request will be propagated to the preferred credential provider and then based on some internal conditions, a passkey will be created without the typical bottom sheet UI experience. Users will see a notification with information about the passkey that was just created.

API Changes

Expose CreateCredentialResponse.createFrom API (Ic0494)
Exposed isConditionalCreate bit to allow silent passkey creation. (I3a1bb)

Version 1.5

Version 1.5.0

March 12, 2025

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0 are released. Version 1.5.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 1.3.0

Secondary UI experience for credential selection: App developers that call Credential Manager APIs at sign-in moments to present the user with a selector, are now able to use new APIs to associate the same GetCredentialRequest with a given view, such as a username or a password field. Subsequently, when the user focuses on one of these views, the corresponding request will be sent to Credential Manager. The resulting credentials are aggregated across providers and displayed in autofill like secondary UIs, such as keyboard or dropdown suggestions. As such when all APIs are used together, the user is first presented with a selector, and if dismissed and taps on one of the fields mentioned above, is then presented with keyboard/dropdown suggestions.
Restore Credentials: The restore credential is used to restore the user's credential from the previous device to a new Android device. By creating a RestoreCredential for the user, the credential will be automatically transferred over to the user's new device if the user selects the app to be transferred from the old device during the setup stage.

Version 1.5.0-rc01

January 15, 2025

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-rc01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-rc01 are released. Version 1.5.0-rc01 contains these commits.

New Features

A version bump release along with small implementation updates

API Changes

Add @Deprecated annotation for IdentityCredential to keep consistent with framework. (I6ac90, b/140252778, b/217942278, b/251211046, b/239955609)

External Contribution

Deprecate BuildCompat.isAtLeastV. Callers should check SDK_INT against 35 directly instead. (I294d1)

Version 1.5.0-beta01

October 30, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-beta01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-beta01 are released. Version 1.5.0-beta01 contains these commits.

New Features

Beta release for the following new features:

Secondary UI experience for credential selection: App developers that call Credential Manager APIs at sign-in moments to present the user with a selector, are now able to use new APIs to associate the same GetCredentialRequest with a given view, such as a username or a password field. Subsequently, when the user focuses on one of these views, the corresponding request will be sent to Credential Manager. The resulting credentials are aggregated across providers and displayed in autofill like secondary UIs, such as keyboard or dropdown suggestions. As such when all APIs are used together, the user is first presented with a selector, and if dismissed and taps on one of the fields mentioned above, is then presented with keyboard/dropdown suggestions.
Restore Credentials. The restore credential is used to restore the user's credential from the previous device to a new Android device. By creating a RestoreCredential for the user, the credential will be automatically transferred over to the user's new device if the user selects the app to be transferred from the old device during the setup stage.

API Changes

Allow developers the flexibility to condition within the CryptoObject and BiometricPromptData setters. (Ie7e8e)

Version 1.5.0-alpha06

October 16, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-alpha06 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-alpha06 are released. Version 1.5.0-alpha06 contains these commits.

New Features

Prepare the library for entering a stable release soon.

Version 1.5.0-alpha05

September 4, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-alpha05 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-alpha05 are released. Version 1.5.0-alpha05 contains these commits.

API Changes

Support a new credential type - DigitalCredential (I12952)
Expose bundle conversion APIs: expose more asBundle and fromBundle helpers to allow these classes be passed across IPC more easily (I1a017)
MakePendingIntentHandler backward compatible. (I34c13)
Make CallingAppInfo backward compatible (I65085)
Expose ClearCredentialRequestTypes constants.

Version 1.5.0-alpha04

August 7, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-alpha04 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-alpha04 are released. Version 1.5.0-alpha04 contains these commits.

API Changes

Added a default value for isCloudBackupEnabled parameter of CreateRestoreCredentialRequest.

Bug Fixes

Removed minSdkVersion for credentials-play-services-auth.

Version 1.5.0-alpha03

July 24, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-alpha03 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-alpha03 are released. This version is developed in an internal branch.

New Features

Introduces a new feature, the Restore Credentials. The restore credential is used to restore the user's credential from the previous device to a new Android device. By creating a RestoreCredential for the user, the credential will be automatically transferred over to the user's new device if the user selects the app to be transferred from the old device during the setup stage.

API Changes

New classes are added for requesting Restore Credentials.
A new credential type, RestoreCredential, that can restore credentials in a new device.
CreateRestoreCredentialRequest for creating a new RestoreCredential.
GetRestoreCredentialOption for fetching RestoreCredential.
ClearCredentialStateRequest can be modified to clear the RestoreCredential.

Bug Fixes

Added a new RestoreCredential API for app-restore purposes (If2d40)

Version 1.5.0-alpha02

June 12, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-alpha02 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-alpha02 are released. This version is developed in an internal branch.

New Features

The ability for CredentialManager to directly imbue a BiometricPrompt within the credential creation and retrieval flows is now available for use through Jetpack for providers.

API Changes

Added the BiometricPromptData to the API surface to allow utilizing the new imbued BiometricPrompt flow through CredentialManager (I3b159)
Modified all entry classes and subclasses across CreateEntry and CredentialEntry to gain the utility of the BiometricPromptData for Providers. (I16936, I8e5bc)
Added the types needed to encode the error and results from the imbued BiometricPrompt flows with CredentialManager. (I8e5bc)

Version 1.5.0-alpha01

May 29, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.5.0-alpha01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.5.0-alpha01 are released. This version is developed in an internal branch.

New Features

Secondary UI experience for credential selection: App developers that call Credential Manager APIs at sign-in moments to present the user with a selector, are now able to use new APIs to associate the same GetCredentialRequest with a given view, such as a username or a password field.

Subsequently, when the user focuses on one of these views, the corresponding request will be sent to Credential Manager. The resulting credentials are aggregated across providers and displayed in autofill like secondary UIs, such as keyboard or dropdown suggestions. As such when all APIs are used together, the user is first presented with a selector, and if dismissed and taps on one of the fields mentioned above, is then presented with keyboard/dropdown suggestions.

API Changes

A PendingGetCredentialRequest class that takes in a (pre-existing) GetCredentialRequest, and a callback to be invoked with a (pre-existing) GetCredentialResponse, when available asynchronously.
New extension setter API for the android View class, that allows setting an instance of PendingGetCredentialRequest. Usage of this API will prepare the given view, such that when the user taps on it, credential suggestions will show up on secondary UI experiences like keyboard/dropdown suggestions.

Version 1.3

Version 1.3.0

October 2, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0 are released. Version 1.3.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 1.2.0

Various important improvements in making the library more reliable and consistent, including but not limited to:

Support preferImmediatelyAvailableCredentials on all android versions.
Improved proguard rule to reduce the app size increase.
Various minor bug fixes.

Version 1.3.0-rc01

July 10, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0-rc01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0-rc01 are released. Version 1.3.0-rc01 contains these commits.

New Features

A version bump release along with small implementation updates.

Version 1.3.0-beta02

June 12, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0-beta02 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0-beta02 are released. Version 1.3.0-beta02 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fixed logic to correctly check for NOT_ALLOWED_ERR instead of CONSTRAINT_ERR in public key credential flows that contain an error on pre-U devices (I31b37)

Version 1.3.0-beta01

May 29, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0-beta01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0-beta01 are released. Version 1.3.0-beta01 contains these commits.

API Changes

Rename the reateCredentialRequest Bundle conversion API. (I46b95)
Update the priorityhints API (Ida554)

Version 1.3.0-alpha04

May 14, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0-alpha04 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0-alpha04 are released. Version 1.3.0-alpha04 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Move to 21 as the default minSdkVersion of androidx libraries. (I6ec7f)
Support PRF creation for Android versions 13 and below.
Support preferImmediatelyAvailableCredentials for Android versions 13 and below.

Version 1.3.0-alpha03

April 17, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0-alpha03 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0-alpha03 are released. This version contains source jars that were missing from the previous release.

Version 1.3.0-alpha02

April 3, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0-alpha02 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0-alpha02 are released. Version 1.3.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

New Features

Added new APIs that assist credential entries to be clearly displayed in the credential selector during a getCredential or createCredential call.

API Changes

Extended the Credential Options API Surface to contain information on display priorities (Ied6fe)
Exposed raw Bundle to structured data conversion helpers (If03a0)
Exposed isDefaultIcon and isAutoSelectAllowedFromOption APIs (I05c59)
Extended the credential entry API surface to contain information on defaulting an icon (I9fe00)
Added an entryGroupId bit to the credential entries (Id995c)
Added a new affiliationName property to the CredentialEntry API surface. (I6261e)
Exposed fromXYZEntry APIs to be used in the framework (I645a1)

Bug Fixes - Provided fallback solution when platform credential manager is not available. (b/310701473) - Fix NPE caused by clearCredentialState API (b/327686881)

Version 1.3.0-alpha01

December 13, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.3.0-alpha01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.3.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.3.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

The minimum APK version needed for Google Play services is now 2023 v08.23 (APK version APK version 230815045), and this check is baked into the library. (aosp/2856137)
Fix the already-resume error caused by race condition of multiple in-flight requests (Ic3567)

Version 1.2

Version 1.2.2

April 3, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.2 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.2 are released. Version 1.2.2 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fix the already-resume error caused by race condition of multiple in-flight requests (Ic3567)
Fix NPE caused by clearCredentialState API (b/327686881)

Version 1.2.1

March 6, 2024

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.1 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.1 are released. Version 1.2.1 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Provided fallback solution when platform credential manager is not available. (b/310701473)

Version 1.2.0

November 1, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0 are released. Version 1.2.0 contains these commits.

Important changes since 1.0.0

This release added a new set of APIs for supporting Credential Provider in storing and fetching passwords, passkeys per users' requests.

Version 1.2.0-rc01

October 4, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-rc01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-rc01 are released. Version 1.2.0-rc01 contains these commits.

A version bump release along with small implementation updates

Version 1.2.0-beta04

September 20, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-beta04 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-beta04 are released. Version 1.2.0-beta04 contains these commits.

New Features

Added get sign in intent flow for sign in with google. (Ib6559,I7a042)
Added single signature checking for allowlisted packages. (Ie6ff5)
Updated PublicKeyCredential json parsing to utilize updated toJson() methods. (I708e3, I00402)

Bug Fixes

Fixed missing Proguard rules (b/288120539)

Version 1.2.0-beta03

August 23, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-beta03 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-beta03 are released. Version 1.2.0-beta03 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Removes uvm extensions, due to planned deprecation from the webauthn spec. (I2d46d)
Ensure compliance to webauthn spec regarding clientExtensions, credProps, and rk properties (I3ab01)

Version 1.2.0-beta02

August 1, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-beta02 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-beta02 are released. Version 1.2.0-beta02 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

b/293743991 - Fix the constant value for the authenticatorData field, in order to correctly parse the authenticationResponseJson property in PublicKeyCredential

Version 1.2.0-beta01

July 26, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-beta01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-beta01 are released. Version 1.2.0-beta01 contains these commits.

API Changes

Expose an API that determines whether the origin is populated or not (Ia91f4)
Makes custom exceptions semantically correct (Ibf6f4)
add test api (I61c1d)
add test api (Iaeb6f)
Removed usages of experimental isAtLeastU() API (Ie9117, b/289269026)
Expose a custom origin getter that takes in allowlist (I0c1b4)
Added VisibleForTest annotation (I5467a)
Added VisibleForTest annotation (Idf57a)
Remove test only apis (Idcc05)
Expose provider entry classes to lower API levels (I2e00a)
Add test apis (Id6b9e)

Bug Fixes

Add test APIs (I0d243)
Add new testing APIs (I6fa12)
Expose autoselect for Create requests (I84eee)
Make JSON encoding errors more detailed (I7a865)
Gracefully report a developer error upon a non-activity context parameter (/I20dd7, b/288288940)
Corrected Exception Parsing for Exceptions returned from Providers (Iaa2af,I0d243,I55151)
Improved documentation for toSlice

Version 1.2.0-alpha05

June 7, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-alpha05 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-alpha05 are released. This version is developed in an internal branch.

New Features

Backwards compatible parsing for the get API across GMS modules introduced alongside the public branch.

Version 1.2.0-alpha04

May 10, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-alpha04 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-alpha04 are released. This version is developed in an internal branch.

Version 1.2.0-alpha03

April 12, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-alpha03 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-alpha03 are released. This was released from an internal branch.

Version 1.2.0-alpha02

March 8, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-alpha02 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-alpha02 are released. Developed from an internal branch.

API Changes

Enable testing of provider request classes by making constructors public.
Make icons required in all entry classes. However if credential providers do not provide icons, this library will have fallback icons.
Allow credential providers to set multiple authentication action entries, and set a title for each.
Remove all privileged request classes. Providers can now simply get the origin from android.service.credentials.CallingAppInfo class, and do not need to handle special request classes for privileged calls (calls on behalf of another app).

Version 1.2.0-alpha01

February 8, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.2.0-alpha01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.2.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.2.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

This release added a new set of APIs for supporting Credential Provider in storing and fetching passwords, passkeys per users' requests.

API Changes

New APIs added to support Credential Providers.

Version 1.0

Note: All projects should use the latest 1.2 version of androidx.credentials. Earlier versions of androidx.credentials will throw an exception UnsupportedOperationException("Post-U not supported yet") when run on Android 14.

Version 1.0.0-alpha09

June 7, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha09 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha09 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha09 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Validate that exception types are accurate and consistent. (Id13d7)
Support the json format on get passkey request. (I25100)
Passkey Retrieval flow is backwards compatible with earlier GMS modules.(I23878)

Version 1.0.0-alpha08

May 3, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha08 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha08 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha08 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Improved debug output readability and error messages.

Version 1.0.0-alpha07

April 19, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha07 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha07 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha07 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Fix bug caused by configuration changes (a75fca, b/276316128)
Don't break the post U flow for the pre-U only SDK (5418c9, b/278148300)

Version 1.0.0-alpha06

April 5, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha06 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha06 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha06 contains these commits.

New Features

Update the integration with Google ID, will work with com.google.android.libraries.identity.googleid:googleid:1.0.0

Version 1.0.0-alpha05

March 22, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha05 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha05 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha05 contains these commits.

Bug Fixes

Properly report the user cancellation error when the user cancels the modal sheet. (/I9ff3, b/271863184)

Version 1.0.0-alpha04

March 8, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha04 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha04 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha04 contains these commits.

API Changes

Added android.permission.CREDENTIAL_MANAGER_SET_ORIGIN requirement for setting origin in Jetpack Library. (Ibaad4)
Added passkey get flow exceptions (I4f654)
CredentialManager api autoselect behavior update (I576dd)
CreateCredentialRequest.DisplayInfo now uses CharSequence rather than String fields. (I85e70)

Bug Fixes

Add proguard rules to ensure the play auth module won't be removed by R8. (9543977)

Version 1.0.0-alpha03

February 22, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha03 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha03 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha03 contains these commits.

New Features

Added support for Sign-in with Google.

API Changes

Allows UnsupportedException to function correctly (I68208)
Adding a new exception type to account for cases such as when the device does not contain the necessary flags (If08dd)
CredentialManager exception api (I72947)

Version 1.0.0-alpha02

February 8, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha02 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha02 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha02 contains these commits.

API Changes

CredentialManager api signature changes (Iabdec)
CredentialManager api signature changes (I977ed)
CredentialManager api signature changes (Ia6e9b)

Bug Fixes

Older ‘cable’ is no longer supported in the webauthn spec, and its replacement, ‘hybrid’ is now returned for the transport list.
Transports were given back in two dimensional lists, this has been fixed to be the correct 1d list.

Version 1.0.0-alpha01

January 11, 2023

androidx.credentials:credentials:1.0.0-alpha01 and androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha01 are released. Version 1.0.0-alpha01 contains these commits.

New Features

This release contains a new jetpack library which provides a unified access to a user's credentials. This can include passwords, passkeys and federated credentials. This library should be used to provide seamless and secure sign-in experiences.
`androidx.credentials:credentials-play-services-auth:1.0.0-alpha01 ‘ is an optional library that allows credentials to be stored to, and retrieved from Google Password Manager. This dependency is needed for devices running Android API level <= 33.

API Changes

New library with new APIs