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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

The database itself is a large platform and we have covered those parts that are relevant to our Spring and Android projects and contents. In this chapter, we have learned what the database is, as well as looking at the various types of it. We have seen a brief description of the DBMs. After that, we have learned about the JDBC, which is an API specification for connecting and moving data from frontend to backend. Then we have developed a project using JDBC where we created, read, updated, and deleted data from the databases. After this topic, we have learned another API called JPA, which is an approach to ORM and a system that maps Java objects to database tables and vice-versa. Then we have learned more about the JPA and its use with the help of a project. There, we have also learned about CRUD-based REST API. Lastly, we have learned about the latest technology of Android...