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Language: Kotlin

An asynchronous, persistent, key-value storage system for React Native.

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React Native Async Storage

Async Storage is an asynchronous, unencrypted, persistent key-value storage solution for your React Native application. It provides a simple API compatible with the Web Storage API, with additional extensions for batch operations and multi-database support.

Supported platforms

  • Android (SQLite)
  • iOS (SQLite)
  • macOS (SQLite)
  • visionOS (legacy fallback, single database only)
  • Web (IndexedDB backend)
  • Windows (legacy fallback, single database only)

Compatibility

Compatibility table for React Native:

React Native Minimum Version
ios/android 0.76
macOS 0.78
visionOS 0.79
windows 0.79

Other components:

Component Version
kotlin 2.1.0
android min sdk 24
ios min target 13
macOS min target 12

Installation

# Using npm
npm install @react-native-async-storage/async-storage

# Using yarn
yarn add @react-native-async-storage/async-storage
iOS/macOS

Install cocoapods dependencies:

# inside macos/ios directory
pod install

Usage

import { createAsyncStorage } from "@react-native-async-storage/async-storage";

// create a storage instance
const storage = createAsyncStorage("appDB");

async function demo() {
  await storage.setItem("userToken", "abc123");

  const token = await storage.getItem("userToken");
  console.log("Stored token:", token); // abc123

  await storage.removeItem("userToken");
}

License

MIT

View the README on GitHub(opens in a new tab)