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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have given a quick presentation of the ideas driving REST and the REST client modules. The RESTful HTTP way of dealing with uncovering functionality is unique. We have seen the different libraries of REST client functions. First, we saw what RestTemplate is and its implementation in an Android application. Now, we know about the constructors of RestTemplate and its functionalities. Furthermore, we have learned about Retrofit, allowing us to actualize Retrofit in an Android application. We have also seen the utilization of its functionalities. Lastly, we look at how to implement Retrofit to get data from a REST API.

In the following chapters, we will develop a total project, including security, authorization/authentication, a database, and a custom REST API, with the Spring and Android application to deal with the API as a client. In these chapters,...