Replace SharedPreferences with DataStore Preferences on Android

[ovitrif]

Hi!

I'm working on an implementation to replace the usage of SharedPreferences with DataStore. It's recommended by Google as seen in Prefer Storing Data with Jetpack DataStore, moreover security-wise there may be concerns about SharedPreferences being deprecated in the longer run.

Since DataStore is tailored to Kotlin, I plan to write the code for it in Kotlin, thus adding Kotlin support to the Android library project.

Hope everything about this is ok with the maintainers 🙏🏻

[AbhavThakur]

hi @ovitrif
Can you help me out in understanding if this can lead to app crash .
I am using React Native - 0.73.6. Here, we are using Kotlin and I have checked my android logcat.

[ovitrif]

Hi @AbhavThakur, can you please share the logs part above the screenshot which point to where the error occurred?

Its's this also related somehow to the changes of my PR, #629 ?
I mean, unless you're locally using it, it isn't yet available in react-native-keychain…