ReactNativeExceptionlessClient.configureStorage in @exceptionless/react-native 3.2.1 wraps storage setup in a try/catch that is meant to fall back to in-memory storage when AsyncStorage is unavailable. Nothing inside the try can throw, and the real failure happens earlier, when the module is imported, so the fallback is dead code.

Where

• packages/react-native/src/ReactNativeExceptionlessClient.ts#L32-L40: the try only constructs AsyncStorageProvider (no constructor) and assigns two plain properties
• packages/react-native/src/storage/AsyncStorageProvider.ts#L1-L2: @react-native-async-storage/async-storage is a static top-level import
• packages/react-native/package.json#L52-L56: AsyncStorage is a required peer dependency

What happens

• If the AsyncStorage native module isn't linked (for example, pod install wasn't run or the app wasn't rebuilt), @react-native-async-storage/async-storage throws [@RNC/AsyncStorage]: NativeModule: AsyncStorage is null at module evaluation time (src/AsyncStorage.native.ts, line 22, in 2.2.0). Importing @exceptionless/react-native throws before startup() runs, so the app fails instead of falling back.
• If storage calls fail later, the AsyncStorageProvider methods return rejected promises from inside the queue. The catch in configureStorage is never involved.
• The log message "AsyncStorage provider failed to initialize. Using in-memory storage." is never written.

Expected

If AsyncStorage can't be loaded or used, the client logs the message and keeps working with the default in-memory storage and usePersistedQueueStorage = false, as the catch intends.

Steps to reproduce

1. Install @exceptionless/react-native 3.2.1 and @react-native-async-storage/async-storage in a bare React Native iOS app, but skip pod install (or run a build that doesn't include the AsyncStorage native module).
2. Import Exceptionless from @exceptionless/react-native and call startup.
3. The app throws NativeModule: AsyncStorage is null while importing the package. The fallback message is never logged.

Suggested fix

Load AsyncStorage lazily inside the guarded path, for example await import("@react-native-async-storage/async-storage") (or a require) in configureStorage, made async and awaited from startup. Then verify it works with an awaited call such as getAllKeys() before setting usePersistedQueueStorage = true. If the fallback is supported, mark the peer dependency optional in peerDependenciesMeta. Otherwise, remove the try/catch and the message.