element-hq / element-hq/element-android

Allow setting up biometric authentication without the use of a PIN

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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
Do not request a PIN for setting up biometric authentication.
#### Why would you like to do it?
So people can use extra authentication layers without the need of extra (potentially unneeded) credentials to remember.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
Allow setting up both a PIN and/or a Biometric auth but do not require one of them to be able to use the other.

### Have you considered any alternatives?

_No response_

### Additional context

_No response_

### Are you willing to provide a PR?

No

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