Is React Native's Async Storage secure?

Question

I want to store sensitive data locally in a React Native app.

Is the data only available to the app that wrote it?

Answer 1

From react-native doc - https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/asyncstorage.html

AsyncStorage is a simple, unencrypted, asynchronous, persistent, key-value storage system that is global to the app.

Its not secure as it stores key-value pairs in unencrypted form on device.

• Checkcout - https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-secure-key-store.

It used keychain for iOS and KeyStore for Android for storing data securely.