diff --git a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncLocalStorageUtil.java b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncLocalStorageUtil.java
index fe29a269..689901f3 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncLocalStorageUtil.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncLocalStorageUtil.java
@@ -8,20 +8,19 @@
 package com.reactnativecommunity.asyncstorage;
 
 import javax.annotation.Nullable;
-
+import java.io.File;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Iterator;
-
 import android.content.ContentValues;
+import android.content.Context;
 import android.database.Cursor;
 import android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabase;
+import android.os.Build;
 import android.text.TextUtils;
-
+import android.util.Log;
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.ReadableArray;
-
 import org.json.JSONException;
 import org.json.JSONObject;
-
 import static com.reactnativecommunity.asyncstorage.ReactDatabaseSupplier.KEY_COLUMN;
 import static com.reactnativecommunity.asyncstorage.ReactDatabaseSupplier.TABLE_CATALYST;
 import static com.reactnativecommunity.asyncstorage.ReactDatabaseSupplier.VALUE_COLUMN;
@@ -142,4 +141,38 @@ private static void deepMergeInto(JSONObject oldJSON, JSONObject newJSON)
       }
     }
   }
+  /**
+   * From Pie and up, Android started to use Write-ahead logging (WAL), instead of journal rollback
+   * for atomic commits and rollbacks.
+   * Basically, WAL does not write directly to the database file, rather to the supporting WAL file.
+   * Because of that, migration to the next storage might not be successful, because the content of
+   * RKStorage might be still in WAL file instead. Committing all data from WAL to db file is called
+   * a "checkpoint" and is done automatically (by default) when the WAL file reaches a threshold
+   * size of 1000 pages.
+   * More here: https://sqlite.org/wal.html
+   *
+   * This helper will force checkpoint on RKStorage, if Next storage file does not exists yet.
+   */
+  public static void verifyAndForceSqliteCheckpoint(Context ctx) {
+    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < Build.VERSION_CODES.P) {
+        Log.i("AsyncStorage_Next", "SQLite checkpoint not required on this API version.");
+    }
+
+    File nextStorageFile = ctx.getDatabasePath("AsyncStorage");
+    File currentStorageFile = ctx.getDatabasePath(ReactDatabaseSupplier.DATABASE_NAME);
+    boolean isCheckpointRequired = !nextStorageFile.exists() && currentStorageFile.exists();
+    if (!isCheckpointRequired) {
+      Log.i("AsyncStorage_Next", "SQLite checkpoint not required.");
+      return;
+    }
+
+    try {
+      ReactDatabaseSupplier supplier = ReactDatabaseSupplier.getInstance(ctx);
+      supplier.get().rawQuery("PRAGMA wal_checkpoint", null).close();
+      supplier.closeDatabase();
+      Log.i("AsyncStorage_Next", "Forcing SQLite checkpoint successful.");
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      Log.w("AsyncStorage_Next", "Could not force checkpoint on RKStorage, the Next storage might not migrate the data properly: " + e.getMessage());
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncStoragePackage.java b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncStoragePackage.java
index c110122c..28a78408 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncStoragePackage.java
+++ b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/AsyncStoragePackage.java
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ public List<NativeModule> createNativeModules(ReactApplicationContext reactConte
                 Class storageClass = Class.forName("com.reactnativecommunity.asyncstorage.next.StorageModule");
                 NativeModule inst = (NativeModule) storageClass.getDeclaredConstructor(new Class[]{ReactContext.class}).newInstance(reactContext);
                 moduleList.add(inst);
+                AsyncLocalStorageUtil.verifyAndForceSqliteCheckpoint(reactContext);
             } catch (Exception e) {
                 String message = "Something went wrong when initializing module:"
                         + "\n"
diff --git a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/next/StorageSupplier.kt b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/next/StorageSupplier.kt
index e4bdc866..e8a0c419 100644
--- a/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/next/StorageSupplier.kt
+++ b/android/src/main/java/com/reactnativecommunity/asyncstorage/next/StorageSupplier.kt
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package com.reactnativecommunity.asyncstorage.next
 
 import android.content.Context
+import android.util.Log
 import androidx.room.ColumnInfo
 import androidx.room.Dao
 import androidx.room.Database
@@ -100,6 +101,7 @@ private object MIGRATION_TO_NEXT : Migration(1, 2) {
             FROM $oldTableName;
         """.trimIndent()
         )
+        Log.e("AsyncStorage_Next", "Migration to Next storage completed.")
     }
 }