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Learn Spring for Android Application Development

By : S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat, Igor Kucherenko
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Learn Spring for Android Application Development

By: S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat, Igor Kucherenko

Overview of this book

As the new official language for Android, Kotlin is attracting new as well as existing Android developers. As most developers are still working with Java and want to switch to Kotlin, they find a combination of these two appealing. This book addresses this interest by bringing together Spring, a widely used Java SE framework for building enterprise-grade applications, and Kotlin. Learn Spring for Android Application Development will guide you in leveraging some of the powerful modules of the Spring Framework to build lightweight and robust Android apps using Kotlin. You will work with various modules, such as Spring AOP, Dependency Injection, and Inversion of Control, to develop applications with better dependency management. You’ll also explore other modules of the Spring Framework, such as Spring MVC, Spring Boot, and Spring Security. Each chapter has practice exercises at the end for you to assess your learning. By the end of the book, you will be fully equipped to develop Android applications with Spring technologies.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

String templates

Kotlin supports one more powerful feature—string templates. Strings can contain code expressions that can be executed, and their results concatenated to the string. The syntax of the string template assumes that we use the $ symbol at the start of an expression. If the expression contains some evaluation, it has to be surrounded by curly braces.
The simplest use of string templates looks like the following:

var number = 1
val string = "number is $number"

A more advanced example that contains an expression is as follows:

val name = "Igor"
val lengthOfName = "length is ${name.length}"

As you can see, the string templates feature allows us to write code in a more concise way than the usual concatenation or the StringBuilder class.