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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)

Project idea

The project idea is the most important part. You need to generate this idea very carefully and have to identify the facts behind your project. You need to keep in mind how this project could be effective on the market, how the users will accept your project, why they will use it, why they should choose your app instead of others, what features will make it different from other existing similar projects, and so on. After generating an idea, you need to create a draft in your mind of how will it look. Then you need to put it down on paper, design the workflow of the project, and then develop the project's code. Lastly, you need to test the project for its smoothness, check that it's bug/error free, and prepare it for the market.

In this chapter, we will create a small project that is like a social network. We will name it Packt Network. This project will have...