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Supabase can be a strong backend for React Native apps when you want PostgreSQL, SQL, Row Level Security, Auth, Storage, and Edge Functions. The key React Native detail is session persistence: configure storage and URL handling before building screens on top of the Supabase client.
Firebase Storage is commonly used in React Native apps for profile photos, posts, chat attachments, marketplace listings, restaurant images, and short videos. The upload code is simple, but production readiness depends on rules, file paths, billing, metadata, and cleanup.
The Async Storage is a simple key-value pair based storage system in React Native. It is used for scenarios where you want to save the user’s data on the device itself instead of using any cloud service, such as building offline apps. According to the React Native’s official documentation:
On iOS, AsyncStorage is backed by native code that stores small values in a serialized dictionary and larger values in separate files. On Android, AsyncStorage will use either RocksDB or SQLite based on what is available.
In this tutorial we will build a React Native app that allows users to upload images and videos from their camera and photo library directly into a AWS S3 bucket. As AWS is the leader of cloud providers, a huge part of the React Native ecosystem is using AWS as the backend for their app. With the release of AWS Amplify, using AWS as backend for a React Native app has never been easier to implement.