In its Android Wallet app, Google is beta testing digital state ID cards

Maryland was perhaps the earliest state to make state IDs accessible on Apple’s Wallet application for iPhones. Now, Google is beta trying to help with the Advanced Driver’s Permit in the Wallet application on Android telephones. At airports like Baltimore, where digital state IDs are accepted. The Apple Wallet integration can already be used to pass through the TSA. This should also work for Android.

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The Google Play Services beta program, specifically version 48.22, runs Android 8.0 or later. In the wake of empowering Bluetooth and Close by Gadgets, and ensuring your telephone has a fragrance lock.

Now see another choice for an ID Card (beta) while adding another card to the Google Wallet application. The feature was shown with Maryland as the first ID that would be available for the upcoming feature.

The following is the procedure for adding a Maryland ID, as stated by a Verge tipster, scan the front, back, and face of the ID before submitting your application and waiting for Maryland to accept the card. Similar to adding a card to Apple Wallet, this procedure is very similar.

The Play Services beta program is currently full, so you may not be able to test the feature immediately. After a time when it abandoned, the Google Pay service, Google recommitted to its Wallet app initiative. The wallet is now much more complete because it includes Google Pay, transit cards, loyalty rewards, gift cards, and ID cards.

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The feature works on newer Google Pixels as well as Samsung Galaxy S20s. Even though the requirements to support the feature may vary. As per the source, the Senior Technical Editor for Esper and former Editor-in-Chief for XDA Developers, contacted us to explain:

Under the hood, Google Wallet uses an API available in Android called Identity Credential to handle ISO 18013-5 compliant mobile driver’s licenses. This API was introduced in Android 11. In the same release, Google also introduced, basically, an enhanced version of the API that utilizes the device’s secure hardware to more securely store mobile driver’s licenses. This is what’s referred to as the Identity Credential HAL, and this is what very few devices support (and what Google wanted to expand support for by introducing new requirements in Android 13 that I mentioned in my article).

However, hardware support for Identity Credential is *not* required to support digital driver’s licenses. For older devices and devices without hardware support, Google offers a backward-compatible version of the Identity Credential API. This is compatible with Android 8.0 and later and utilizes another API called the Android Keystore to store mobile driver’s licenses on the device. Keystore uses the device’s Trusted Execution Environment, which Android devices have been required to support for some time now.

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