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Learn Spring for Android Application Development

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

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 Android app

Let's create a simple Android app as a client that will retrieve the REST API using the GitHub API. First of all, we need to create an app from Android Studio and put down our project and the company domain. Don't forget to check Include Kotlin support. It will include all of the support of Kotlin. The following screenshot shows the Create Android Project window:

Then, select the minimum API version from the Phone and Tablet option. There is no need to add other options for this project. After clicking Next, in the Add an Activity to Mobile section, you can select Empty Activity and then, after renaming the Activity Name and layout, click Finish. After the build, you will be ready to start creating an Android app.

The final files of this project are shown in the following screenshot:

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