How to Turn off your mobile screen with the fingerprint sensor

How to Turn off your mobile screen with the fingerprint sensor - Increasingly we can enjoy more devices with fingerprint readers, some already at a very affordable price. Instead where some see a security measure others see a button more.
Some manufacturers already use the fingerprint sensor to perform actions and everything indicates that Android 7.1 will include the possibility of gestures on the sensor to perform functions such as down the notification bar. Today we bring you a trick to give another function to the sensor; Turn off the screen of your mobile.
What is the best location for the fingerprint sensor?
Put your finger on and off

The way to do this comes from XDA Developers where the user ztc1997 has released an application that performs this task without root. Simply install it and yes, grant administrator permissions for the action of turning off the screen.
Then just enter the application click on "Enable fingerprint to lock" to activate the function. It is possible that the resource management Android will finally close the application, it can activate "Foreground service", who has a background service with a notice (which will not appear on the bar but if the notification list) .

For safety when an application forces the screen to fade not allowed to unlock the device with fingerprint but you need to place the PIN or password you set. To fix the developer has placed an option, "Work-around for Smart Lock and Fingerprint" but need to have the rooted device to it.
You can check the code on GitHub but need to download the APK to install the application as it is not yet in Google Play.

A more useful sensor over time

Especially with the arrival of Android 7.1 we can enjoy even more of our sensor fingerprint reader and how are you make things that little button or area of the device more useful than simply unlock the device.