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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)

RxJava

RxJava is another popular library that implements the concept of reactive programming. It also provides types, such as Observable or Single, that emit values. All of these classes also provide static factories and operators.

In this section, we will cover the following:

  • How to use the Flowable class
  • How to use the Observable class
  • How to use the Single class
  • How to use the Maybe class
  • How to use the Completable class

Flowable

The Flowable class was introduced in the second version of the RxJava library. This class represents a stream of events, such as Flux from Reactor.

You should consider using Flowable when you read data from a file, database, or network. The following example code shows how to create and use Flowable...