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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)

Retrofit

Retrofit is a library that makes parsing an API reaction simple and better for utilization in the application. Retrofit is a REST client for Java and Android that makes it moderately simple to recover and transfer JSON by means of a REST-based web service. In Retrofit, you can arrange which converter is utilized for the information serialization. Normally, for JSON, you utilize Gson, but you can add custom converters to process XML or different conventions. Retrofit utilizes the OkHttp library for HTTP requests.

The use of Retrofit

To work with Retrofit, you will require the following three classes:

  • A model class, which is utilized as a JSON model
  • Interfaces that characterize the conceivable HTTP activities
  • The...