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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 looked at reactive programming and how it can help us to handle asynchronous events. We also introduced the React and RxJava libraries that provide classes such as Mono, Flux, Single, and Observable, which follow reactive programming concepts.

Reactive programming allows us to use different thread schedulers to process and transform events with multithreading. The Blocking and Non-Blocking section showed us how to work with thread schedulers. You also learned that reactive programming is based on the Observer pattern.

Modern Android applications handle a lot of different asynchronous events, such as user interactions and push notifications. Learning about Reactive programming is important, because it can help us to better manage our resources through asynchronous processing, allowing us to build more complex applications that are capable of multitasking...