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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)

Architecture components

The architecture components are one of the components of Android Jetpack. This is a guideline for application architecture. This component is built on some libraries to do common tasks in an easier way. With the help of this component, a developer can develop their project, which can be robust, maintainable, and testable.

Today we will create an Android offline application where we will use Android components.

Here is the diagram of this architecture:

The following is a brief description of all the components:

  • UI Controller: UI components like activities and fragments are under this component.
  • ViewModel: This fetches data with the help of model and provides it to the UI.
  • LiveData: This class holds the observable data. This is lifecycle-aware, unlike the regular observable.
  • Repository: This manages multiple data sources.
  • Room Database: This is a top...