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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)

Summary

Testing is always a good way to discover errors in the UI, backend code, or logic. It helps to understand the reason for crashes. Here, we have learned about two powerful frameworks. One is JUnit and another is Espresso. In this chapter, we have seen how to add the dependencies for testing. We have learned how to implement the JUnit into a project. We saw how to use the logic in our test case and how to check to see the pass or fail result of a test case. Additionally, we have seen how to connect the database for testing. Then, we saw how to insert a demo object into a database, and subsequently, fetch it from the database, after which we have matched the object.

In Android testing, we have used the Espresso framework to test the UI. Finally, we have seen some uses of the Espresso APIs and how to handle and connect them with a specific activity. This chapter gave you a...