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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)

JUnit

JUnit is the most popular testing framework, built for Java, and is open source. It has almost all the features and modules necessary to test a Java-based application in a test-driven development environment. JUnit mainly focuses on writing tests that are automated for a certain class or function. It helps to call a function and check for the expected output. Before seeing some examples of JUnit in use, let's learn about its advantages.

Advantages of JUnit

JUnit is widely used for testing Java applications because of its user-friendly functionalities. It has some powerful advantages, such as the following:

  • The JUnit framework is open source
  • It provides text-based command lines as well as AWT-based and Swing-based...