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Learn Spring for Android Application Development

You're reading from   Learn Spring for Android Application Development Build robust Android applications with Kotlin 1.3 and Spring 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789349252
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat
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Igor Kucherenko Igor Kucherenko
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. About the Environment 2. Overview of Kotlin FREE CHAPTER 3. Overview of Spring Framework 4. Spring Modules for Android 5. Securing Applications with Spring Security 6. Accessing the Database 7. Concurrency 8. Reactive Programming 9. Creating an Application 10. Testing an Application 11. Assessments 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Client side

After creating our backend, we need to create a client-based application to utilize the server. In this part, we will create an Android application as a client-based frontend application. To create the application, we need to make a design before starting coding. We will create an Android application and handle HTTP requests with the use of Retrofit.

First of all, we will design the workflow of the application.

Creating the design

To design our application, we have to keep in mind what the project is about and how the backend was designed. As we know, this is a mini-social-network-type app. So we have to create some model objects that are exactly the same as the server's model objects. In the application...

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