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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)

Creating an Application

So far, we have prepared you to become a professional Spring-based developer. You have learned what Spring is, as well as the functions of its architecture, components, security features, database, and so on. We have also shown you how to develop an Android app and handle HTTP requests and use the database.

As you know, we developed all the example projects in Kotlin, and nowadays, this language is very famous among developers for its conciseness and interoperability. In this chapter, we will implement all the features of the previous chapters to develop a project that will have a server and a client side.

This chapter covers the following topics:

  • Project idea
  • Creating the design
  • Server side:
    • Developing a database model
    • Creating a project and Maven dependency
    • Creating entities, repositories, and a controller
    • Implementing security
    • Modified application...