Reflecting variable to View in React Native

Question

I'm new in React native and I know this common to ask but I've been confused on how can I reflect varible to my view text based on the AsyncStorage variable, I've used AsyncStorage but it returns me an error

Error: Can't find variable:username

I have this

import React, {useContext,useState} from 'react';
import {
  View,
  Text,
  StyleSheet,
  ImageBackground,
} from 'react-native';
import {AuthContext} from '../navigation/AuthProvider';
import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-async-storage/async-storage';


const LoginScreen = ({navigation}) => {

  const {googleLogin} = useContext(AuthContext);
  const [state, setState] = useState(username);
  AsyncStorage.getItem('userPrivilege').then((variable) => {
    if (variable != null) {
      console.log("hoy");
      console.log(variable);
      setState({username: variable})   
    }
  }); 
  return (
    <View >
      <ImageBackground source={require('../assets/images/launch_screen.png')} style= {styles.backgroundImage}   >
        <Text>{state.username}</Text>
    </ImageBackground>
    </View>
    
  );
};

Update

It works now but when I tried to print value through a console it has infinite value in my console, do you know what the problem is?

Answer 1

Your error comes from an misunderstanding about how useState works.

The value from the useState , state in your case takes the type of what you put inside, in your case username in a string or undefined at the begging .

So state is not an object at the begging .

To fix your error, you can initialize your state to

const [state, setState] = useState({username: ''});

Update but it gets me an error

Objects are not valid as a React child(Found: object with keys {username}).If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead.

Code

const [state, setState] = useState({username: ''});

AsyncStorage.getItem('userPrivilege').then((variable) => {
    if (variable != null) {
       setState({username: variable}) 
    }
}

return (
    <View>
       <Text>{state}</Text>
    </View>
     );
   }
});