QuickGig

QuickGig is an Expo and React Native marketplace for trusted short-term local work. Workers can discover and save briefs, posters can publish and manage requests, and admins can review marketplace health from a polished dark mobile interface.

Highlights

• Worker, poster, and admin workspaces
• Focused access chooser with worker and poster profile creation
• Search, category filters, saved briefs, and fit indicators
• Brief-readiness scoring before a poster publishes
• Request-based chat between workers and posters
• Duplicate request protection
• Applicant accept/reject decisions with automatic closure of competing pending requests
• Backend-style marketplace rules in src/backend/marketplace.ts
• Admin operational audit and status sync for mismatches, duplicate requests, and assignment issues
• Android-ready Expo configuration with dark system UI support

Seed Accounts

Choose access on the sign-in screen, then enter the matching seed credentials. Worker and poster profiles can also be created directly from their access screens.

Role	Username	Password
Worker	riya.worker	QuickGig123
Worker	karan.worker	QuickGig456
Worker	maya.worker	QuickGig789
Poster	aarav.poster	PosterPass123
Admin	admin.quickgig	AdminPass123

Project Structure

App.tsx                         Main app shell and role workspaces
src/backend/marketplace.ts      Business rules and data consistency logic
src/data/mockData.ts            Seed users, briefs, and requests
src/theme.ts                    Dark Material-style design tokens
assets/                         Expo app icons and splash assets

Local Development

npm install
npm run web

Run on Android:

npm run android

Verification

npm run typecheck
$exportDir = Join-Path $env:TEMP "quickgig-export"
npx expo export --platform android --output-dir $exportDir

Build A Test APK

The local Windows APK build is most reliable outside OneDrive or with the Android output generated fresh. This project currently builds a modern Android test APK for arm64-v8a.

npm run prebuild:android
cd android
$env:NODE_ENV = "production"
.\gradlew.bat assembleRelease -PreactNativeArchitectures=arm64-v8a

The generated release APK is signed with the debug certificate for device testing. For Play Store release, replace the debug signing config with a production keystore.

Notes

• newArchEnabled is disabled in app.json to avoid a Windows/Gradle hardlink snapshot issue in native CMake outputs.
• expo-system-ui is installed so the Android dark interface style is applied consistently.
• Local APKs, native build folders, logs, screenshots, and Expo output are ignored by git.