In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use AsyncStorage in React Native to save data in a database.

After creating and styling our list of data using the FlastList component and added two buttons for opening URLs with web browsers and saving article meta-data locally for reading later. Let’s see how to implement the functionality of the Read later button using the AsyncStorage module in React Native.

AsyncStorage is an asynchronous, unencrypted, persistent, key-value storage system for React Native that should be used instead of LocalStorage because it makes use of efficient data storage mechanisms such as files and database systems (SQLite).

On iOS, AsyncStorage stores small values in a serialized dictionary and larger values in separate files. On Android, AsyncStorage makes use of SQLite or RocksDB…

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