title: Android - Use Fingerprint API in Android API 17
body: <p>Recently, Google allowed developers to use Fingerprint API in Android 6.0 (API 23).</p>
  
  <p>I have an android project with <code>compiledSdkVersion 23</code> and <code>minSdkVersion 17</code>.</p>
  
  <p>My question is: Can i use Fingerprint API in my project, i tried to use Google sample in my project but i have this error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Class Requires API level 23 (current min is 17)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>if i can i will be grateful to any one gives me a good tutorial.</p>
  
  <p>thank you</p>