For our last week, focused on improving session persistence and preparing GusLift for broader platform support. This week, we continued improving the core ride-sharing experience by working on notifications, routing, schedule management, ride matching, and user interface consistency.
Improving Push Notifications
One major focus this week was improving push notification support.
Push notifications are important for a ride-sharing app because riders and drivers need to receive updates quickly. For example, a rider should know when a driver responds to a ride request, and a driver should know when there is activity related to a potential ride.
To support this, the app was configured to work with Expo notifications and Firebase notification services for Android.
