Lion-Dry

Finding a open washer or dryer on campus made easy.

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Inspiration

Having lived on campus for all of our time in University Park so far, the three of us have found ourselves frustrated when doing laundry. Depending on where on campus you're living, laundry may be right across the hall from your dorm room, or it could be on a completely different floor. This is annoying if you are lugging your laundry up the stairs and find when you arrive at the laundry room that there are no open machines.

What it does

We've created a starter demo of the app. It currently retrieves information on 6 washer and dryer machines stored in a DynamoDB table on Amazon AWS. It displays whether or not the machine is in use according to that table. We did not implement the trend graph or the reservation system.

How we built it

We used Android Studio and integrated AWS's DynamoDB to retrieve which machines were open.

How to run

If you have an Android device, click the "Download APK" button on our Github page. When it finishes downloading on your Android phone, open it to install (you may need to allow installations from unknown sources). The application will ask for a psu email and password. It does NOT link to your access account at PSU. Instead, use these example credentials:

Email: abc1234@psu.edu
Password: hello
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