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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)

Server side

On the server side, we are using the Spring Framework. We will handle all the data with a MySQL database and protect the resources with basic authentication.

First of all, we will design the project's backend logic. Then we will plan for the REST API. We will create a data model using MySQL Workbench. Then we will create the project using http://start.spring.io. Then we will create the database entity using JPA and Hibernate, and we will check that the REST API is working. To check this, we will use an HTTP client software tool named Insomnia. Then we will implement basic authentication with Spring Security to protect our resources. Lastly, we will give you a task to complete, on upgrading the project, and becoming a contributor to this project on GitHub.

Creating...