React Native Share Extension - Access to AsyncStorage?

Question

I am working on an application in react native, and was taking a look at some tutorials for creating a 'share extension' within the app. I see on npm react-native-share-extension how to create the extension within the project in xcode, and create a new component with a second AppRegistry (shown from npm example).

//index.ios.js 
import React from 'react'
import { AppRegistry } from 'react-native'

import App from './app.ios'
import Share from './share.ios'

AppRegistry.registerComponent('Sample1', () => App)
AppRegistry.registerComponent('MyShareEx', () => Share)

Does anyone know if the share component would have access to the data stored by the main app in AsyncStorage? (i.e my login token)

Thanks!

you need to use app groups in order the share data between the app and the extension in IOS — Roy
Thanks Roy, I found how to create the app group in xcode. I'll test it out in the react native code. — squatchman

AndrewHenderson AndrewHenderson · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-08T17:15:26

You need to use App Groups. That is where you can store shared data.

There is a plugin for React Native that works very well for iOS. I'm using it myself.

Check out: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-shared-group-preferences

React Native Share Extension - Access to AsyncStorage?

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