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Learn Spring for Android Application Development

By : S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat, Igor Kucherenko
Book Image

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)

The RestTemplate module

RestTemplate is a robust and Java-based REST client. In Android application development, we can use the RestTemplate module, which will provide a template to request and retrieve a REST API. RestTemplate is Spring's core class for synchronous client-side HTTP access. It's intended to disentangle correspondence with HTTP servers and authorize RESTful standards.

RestTemplate is the main class for synchronous RESTful HTTP requests. A native Android HTTP client library is used to retrieve requests. The default ClientHttpRequestFactory, which is utilized when you make another RestTemplate example, varies depending on the adaptation of Android on which your application is running.