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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)

Chapter 6

  1. H2 is an open source Java database that is very lightweight. It can be embedded in Java applications. It also runs on the client-server model.
  2. A resource means how data will be represented in REST architecture. It allows a client to read, write, modify, and create resources using HTTP methods, for example GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, and so on.
  3. CRUD stands for Create, Read, Update, and Delete.
  4. DAO is an abstraction of data persistence. Repository is an abstraction of a collection of objects.
  5. SQLite uses dynamic typing. Content can be stored as INTEGER, REAL, TEXT, BLOB, or NULL.
  6. Alternatives to the SQLite database are OrmLite, Couchbase Lite, and Snappy DB.
  7. The standard SQLite commands are SELECT, CREATE, INSERT, UPDATE, DROP, and DELETE.
  8. There are some disadvantages of SQLite. They are as follows:
    • It is used to handle low-to-medium traffic HTTP requests.
    • The size of SQLite...