Driver onboarding now photographs the licence, ID card and vehicle
registration and reads the credential fields off them, plus a camera-only
profile selfie riders check the arriving driver against. Adds in-app chat
and WebRTC calls, push-backed ride offers, ratings, cancellation and
payment sheets, settlement, and the owner dashboard endpoints behind them.
Camera permission on Android:
- Declare CAMERA and READ_MEDIA_IMAGES in the manifest. expo-image-picker's
own plugin never declares CAMERA, and Android denies a request for an
undeclared permission instantly and silently — no dialog is ever shown,
which is indistinguishable from the app not asking at all.
- Handle canAskAgain: once Android stops showing the dialog, repeating why
we need it is a dead end, so offer Open Settings instead (lib/capture-
permission.ts), matching what the location flow already did.
Session: a 401 on a request that carried a token now ends the session
instead of being reinterpreted per-screen — driver-home had been reading it
as "this user has no driver profile" and showing an onboarding form to an
already-onboarded driver. Requests without a token are exempt so a failed
sign-in doesn't sign you out, and the notification is latched per token so
concurrent polls tear the session down once. (root) gains the auth guard
that turns that into the sign-in screen; app/index.tsx only guarded the way
in, leaving a session that ended mid-screen with nowhere to go.
Also ignore .uploads/ — it holds driver licence, ID and vehicle scans plus
profile photos, which are personal data and must not be committed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Driver side (was a stub):
- In-app driver onboarding: a driver-role user creates their own linked
drivers profile (driver/profile+api GET/POST/PATCH).
- Driver dashboard: online/offline toggle, today's earnings, incoming
request cards (accept/decline), active ride panel (start/complete trip).
Polls /driver/rides every 4s while online.
- Location heartbeat (use-driver-location): watchPositionAsync pings
/driver/location every ~5s; restarts the watch on app foreground so a
backgrounded driver doesn't go permanently stale and miss requests.
Dispatch (auto-match nearest, Uber-style):
- Ride state machine: requested -> accepted -> en_route -> completed/cancelled
with a nullable driver_id until matched (lib/dispatch.matchNextDriver).
- matchNextDriver locks the ride (SELECT FOR UPDATE), expires 15s-stale
offers, picks the nearest eligible driver of the matching service by
haversine, offers one at a time. Called from ride/create, ride/[id] GET
(lazy match on the rider's poll), and ride/[id]/respond (on decline).
- ride/create is now a request endpoint (driver_id NULL, status=requested,
service); drops the pre-match driver_id payment reconciliation.
- ride/[id] GET returns status/service/nullable driver; PATCH handles rider
cancel + driver en_route/completed. ride/list backs the history tabs.
Rider flow (best experience):
- confirm-ride is now a request screen: single trip fare + nearest-driver
ETA + cash/card + Request Ride -> live status. Periodically polls online
drivers of the selected service and disables Request when none are
online (prevents the "stuck searching forever" state).
- book-ride is the live ride-status screen (searching -> accepted ->
en_route -> completed/cancelled + Cancel), polling every 3s.
- lib/request-ride unifies the Areeba card flow + cash path.
- Map reads /driver/nearby (real positions, service-filtered); lib/map
adds calculateTripFare + service-aware fares.
POI suggestions:
- lib/places (Google Nearby Search) + nearby-suggestions chips for
mall/hospital/pharmacy/restaurant on the home screen.
Service categories now drive both matching and a per-service fare
multiplier (car 1.0 / moto 0.7 / courier 0.85 / chauffeur 1.5).
Map tiles: react-native-maps rendered blank on Android because no Google
Maps key was set. Switched app.json -> app.config.js so
android.config.googleMaps.apiKey is injected from
EXPO_PUBLIC_GOOGLE_API_KEY at build time (keeps the key out of git).
Requires a native rebuild (expo run:android) to take effect.
Also includes the prior payment/auth hardening (server-authoritative
payment_orders ledger with double-spend guards, peppered OTP, register
TOCTOU fix, stats cents fix) that was left uncommitted.
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
