async-storage: [@RNC/AsyncStorage]: NativeModule: AsyncStorage is null

Current behavior

The common AsyncStorage null exception.

Repro steps

I’m building a small app that was initialized via Expo. I’m trying to use AsyncStorage for my redux store and for a framework. Currently, I have it working for testing using the old react-native module for storage. But I’m trying to make it work with the current, community, version. Steps I took are as follows:

• npm i @react-native-community/async-storage
• expo eject
• react-native link @react-native-community/async-storage
• cd ios && pod install
• react-native run-ios
• expo start -c
• Removed npm_modules and reinstalled.

One error I receive after running react-native run-ios is the following, but I have already run pod install in the ios folder, and re-running tells me that there are 54 (55) modules install (55 if I link async storage).

error Could not find the following native modules: RNCMaskedView, react-native-netinfo, RNGestureHandler, RNReanimated, react-native-safe-area-context, RNScreens, RNSVG. Did you forget to run “pod install” ?

I’ve also tried referencing the native modules in the podfile, after use_react_native!. But that hasn’t worked either

 require_relative '../node_modules/react-native/scripts/autolink-ios.rb'
 require_relative '../node_modules/@react-native-community/cli-platform-ios/native_modules'
 use_react_native!
 use_native_modules!

Linking tells me that the module is already linked. I have also tried unlinking and running that way, same issue. Simple code I am using is as follows (looks like v2 may be a little different?):

import AsyncStorage from "@react-native-community/async-storage";

// Redux Persistence Config.
const persistConfig = {
  key: config.redux.persistKey,
  storage: AsyncStorage
}

Environment

• Async Storage version: 1.8.0
• React-Native version: 0.61.4
• Platform tested: iOS
• Expo version: 36.0.0

Podfile

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :ios, '10.0'

target 'pilogger' do
  pod 'ExpoKit',
    :git => "http://github.com/expo/expo.git",
    :tag => "ios/2.14.4",
    :subspecs => [
      "Core"
    ],
    :inhibit_warnings => true

  # Install unimodules
  require_relative '../node_modules/react-native-unimodules/cocoapods.rb'
  use_unimodules!(
    modules_paths: ['../node_modules'],
    exclude: [
      'expo-bluetooth',
      'expo-in-app-purchases',
      'expo-payments-stripe',
    ],
  )

 # Install React Native and its dependencies
 require_relative '../node_modules/react-native/scripts/autolink-ios.rb'
 use_react_native!

  pod 'RNCAsyncStorage', :path => '../node_modules/@react-native-community/async-storage'

  post_install do |installer|
    installer.pods_project.main_group.tab_width = '2';
    installer.pods_project.main_group.indent_width = '2';

    installer.target_installation_results.pod_target_installation_results
      .each do |pod_name, target_installation_result|

      if pod_name == 'ExpoKit'
        target_installation_result.native_target.build_configurations.each do |config|
          config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] ||= ['$(inherited)']
          config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] << 'EX_DETACHED=1'
          
          # Enable Google Maps support
          config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] << 'HAVE_GOOGLE_MAPS=1'
          config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] << 'HAVE_GOOGLE_MAPS_UTILS=1'
          
        end
      end



      target_installation_result.native_target.build_configurations.each do |config|
        config.build_settings['IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = '10.0'
      end


      # Can't specify this in the React podspec because we need to use those podspecs for detached
      # projects which don't reference ExponentCPP.
      if pod_name.start_with?('React')
        target_installation_result.native_target.build_configurations.each do |config|
          config.build_settings['IPHONEOS_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET'] = '10.0'
          config.build_settings['HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS'] ||= ['$(inherited)']
        end
      end

      # Build React Native with RCT_DEV enabled and RCT_ENABLE_INSPECTOR and
      # RCT_ENABLE_PACKAGER_CONNECTION disabled
      next unless pod_name.start_with?('React')
      target_installation_result.native_target.build_configurations.each do |config|
        config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] ||= ['$(inherited)']
        config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] << 'RCT_DEV=1'
        config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] << 'RCT_ENABLE_INSPECTOR=0'
        config.build_settings['GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS'] << 'ENABLE_PACKAGER_CONNECTION=0'
      end

    end
  end
end