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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)

Espresso

Espresso is an open source framework and an instrumentation-based API, designed by Google. It is good practice to create some test cases of various scenarios of the project. It helps to find out the unexpected results or bugs of the UI, as well as the use case. It automatically syncs the actions of the test with the UI of the application. It allows you to test on both real devices and emulators. But there is a disadvantage of the use in a real device due to its high price to test various size of displays and manufacturers. So an emulator is the best solution to reduce the cost and time for testing. According to the Espresso testers, almost 99% of bugs on an Android application can be detected by this framework. The APIs of Espresso are very small, predictable, and easy to learn. You can also customize these APIs if you want.

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