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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)

Technical requirements

You will need to import some dependencies for both Spring and Android. Here are the dependencies.

  • Spring

To implement the dependency for testing, you need to add the testing dependency in the pom.xml file:

<!-- This is to implement the testing functions for the spring project -->
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
  • Android

To test an Android project, we need to implement the testing dependencies in the gradle file. To add the dependencies, we need to implement in the dependencies {...} of build.gradle (app module) file. Here is a snippet code of this build.gradle file:

// Dependencies for local unit tests
dependencies{
testImplementation "junit:junit:$rootProject.ext.junitVersion"

/...