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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)

Introduction to Spring

Spring Framework is an open source framework. This is written in Java and developed by Pivotal software. Any Java-based enterprise applications can use the core of this framework. Spring Framework uses the Plain Old Java Object (POJO), which makes it easier to build an enterprise application.

A POJO is a Java object that isn't bound by any restriction other than those forced by the Java language specification. POJOs are used to increase the readability and reusability of an application.

Let's learn the advantages of Spring and architectures in the following sections.

The advantages of Spring

Spring Framework is a component-rich framework with the following advantages:

  • Spring can be utilized...