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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use Spring Security with confidence. First, we covered what Spring Security is as well as its architecture. We also learned about the advantage of using Spring Security, looking at its features and modules. Now, we're able to implement Spring Security in any project. We learned what the basic authentication is and, using an example, we saw how to implement the basic authentication in a project as well as how to secure the resources in a server. We also learned how to create a secured REST API. Then we learned how to create a client application in Android to fetch and use the protected resources from the REST API. We also learned how to implement a username and password to get access to the basic authentication-based secured server. In addition, we familiarized ourselves with how to use a custom adapter in a listview in the client...