Usage

Async Storage can only store string data. In order to store object data, you need to serialize it first. For data that can be serialized to JSON, you can use JSON.stringify() when saving the data and JSON.parse() when loading the data.

Importing

import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-async-storage/async-storage';

Storing data

setItem() is used both to add new data item (when no data for given key exists), and to modify existing item (when previous data for given key exists).

Storing string value

const storeData = async (value) => {
  try {
    await AsyncStorage.setItem('my-key', value);
  } catch (e) {
    // saving error
  }
};

Storing object value

const storeData = async (value) => {
  try {
    const jsonValue = JSON.stringify(value);
    await AsyncStorage.setItem('my-key', jsonValue);
  } catch (e) {
    // saving error
  }
};

Reading data

getItem returns a promise that either resolves to stored value when data is found for given key, or returns null otherwise.

Reading string value

const getData = async () => {
  try {
    const value = await AsyncStorage.getItem('my-key');
    if (value !== null) {
      // value previously stored
    }
  } catch (e) {
    // error reading value
  }
};

Reading object value

const getData = async () => {
  try {
    const jsonValue = await AsyncStorage.getItem('my-key');
    return jsonValue != null ? JSON.parse(jsonValue) : null;
  } catch (e) {
    // error reading value
  }
};

More

For more examples, head over to API section.