🚗 Ride-Hailing Driver App – Complete Feature Overview

📱 App Overview

This is a React Native mobile application designed for professional drivers in the taxi and ride-share industry in Germany. It enables drivers to manage their shifts, vehicles, rides, and financials efficiently within a single app.

🏗️ Architecture Overview

**Tech Stack**

* Frontend: React Native 0.73.2
* State Management: Redux + Redux Persist
* Navigation: React Navigation v6
* Push Notifications: Pushy
* Maps: React Native Maps with clustering
* Backend: Node.js API (external)
* Image Storage: Firebase Storage
* Authentication: OTP & Password-based

**Platform Support**

* iOS (12.4+)
* Android (API 21+)

🗂️ Project Structure

```
project-root/
├── src/
│   ├── screens/
│   ├── components/
│   ├── redux/
│   ├── services/
│   ├── router/
│   ├── themes/
│   ├── utils/
│   ├── config/
│   └── languagesJSONs/
├── ios/
├── android/
└── App.tsx
```

🧭 Navigation Structure

**Authentication Flow**

* SplashScreen → Language Selection → Onboarding → Login (Email/Phone OTP or Password)

**Main App Flow**

* Tab Navigation:

  * Home: Ride history & driver status
  * Map: Heatmap visualization
  * Vehicle: Car check-in/out process
  * Invoices: Add expenses/income
  * Account: Profile, theme, language

* Special Flow:

  * Parking Driver Flow for company-managed vehicles

🗄️ State Management

**Persistent State** (e.g., theme, language, login session)
**Session State** (e.g., current rides, shift progress)

🌐 API Integration

Includes authentication, driver info, vehicle management, and ride data endpoints. Supports image uploads and real-time ride syncing via WebSocket.

📱 Core Features

1. **Driver Account**

   * Multi-login support (email, phone, password)
   * Profile management & status toggle
   * Push notifications

2. **Rides**

   * Receive rides via push
   * Ride history grouped by date
   * Role-based filtering (personal vs company-wide)

3. **Vehicle Management**

   * 8-step shift check-in/out with photos
   * Damage documentation and fuel/mileage tracking

4. **Expenses**

   * Add expenses with photos
   * Categorization and income logging
   * History view with pagination

5. **Heatmap**

   * Real-time clustering
   * Pickup density in key German cities
   * Auto-refresh every 45 mins

6. **Settings**

   * Dark/light theme
   * Multilingual UI (DE, EN, AR, TR)
   * Font scaling
   * In-app support integration

🔔 Push Notifications

* Ride assignment alerts
* Segmented by platform/channel
* Custom Android sounds
* Background fetch support on iOS

🌍 Internationalization

* German 🇩🇪 (default)
* English 🇬🇧
* Arabic 🇸🇦 (RTL supported)
* Turkish 🇹🇷

🎨 UI/UX

* Theming: light/dark, custom palette
* Fonts: Poppins with user scaling
* Responsive sizing for all components

🛠️ Key Components

* Core UI: Button, Input, Header, TabBar, Modal, DatePicker
* Logic: Shift selection, OCR mileage capture, Damage reports, Expense type selection

📊 Data Flow

1. Auth → JWT → Redux store
2. Rides → Push → Fetch → Redux
3. Shift → Form + Photos → Upload → API
4. Expense → Form + Photo → Submit → API

🔒 Security

* JWT auth
* Auto token refresh
* Secure storage
* API UUID signing

📈 Performance

* Image compression
* Pagination & lazy loading
* Caching & offline support
* Background tasks & request monitoring

🐛 Error Handling

* Global error boundary
* Toasts on failures
* Network monitoring
* Server alerting via Telegram

📦 Build & Deployment

* iOS + Android bundle IDs
* Versioned builds
* Deployed via standard CI/CD pipelines

Key Dependencies:
React Native Maps, Redux Toolkit, React Navigation, Firebase SDK, Pushy, Reanimated, Bottom Sheet, Image Picker

This app provides a full solution for professional drivers needing to manage their operations digitally – from ride tracking to shift documentation and expense handling – tailored for compliance and ease-of-use within the German market.