React Native AsyncStorage getItem returns promise not value

Question

I have a login form and I am able to post my the form values. After a successful POST request, I get authentication token returned from the API. I need to save this token for fu

Answer 1

You have to call as

getUserToken().then(res => {
    console.log(res);
  });

Since this is an async call.

Answer 2

using Async/Await :

async _getStorageValue(){
  var value = await AsyncStorage.getItem('ITEM_NAME')
  return value
}