Introduction
For securely storing sensitive data in react-native application there is different approaches for different platforms.
- For iOS application we will use Keychain Services
- For android application we will use Android KeyStore System
React Native library “react-native-secure-key-store”
This library internally store sensitive data securely to KeyChain and KeyStore service in iOS and Android respectively.
Installation
The plugin can be installed via the npm:
$ npm install react-native-secure-key-store --save
or via yarn
$ yarn add react-native-secure-key-store --save
Linking library to project automatically
$ react-native link react-native-secure-key-store
Usage
Above library will expose three methods set, get and remove for storing data, retrieving data and removing data which is no longer needed respectively.
Complete usage of library in a typical react-native application
Source code
Source code available at react-native-secure-key-store