S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat - Learn Spring for Android Application Development: Build robust Android applications with Kotlin 1.3 and Spring 5

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S. M. Mohi Us Sunnat is a passionate Android developer and trainer with over 4 years' experience. He has developed applications using Kotlin as the principal programming language. He is the founder of DreamOgrammerS, a small IT company. He is the organizer of Droidcon Dhaka. He loves community engagement and works on a number of open source projects, including Mozilla Firefox and Brave. He is also the community leader of the Bangladesh Kotlin user group and the Dhaka Twitter developer community of Bangladesh.

Igor Kucherenko is an Android developer at Techery, a software development company that uses Kotlin as the main language for Android development. Currently, he lives in Ukraine, where he is a speaker in the Kotlin Dnipro community, which promotes Kotlin, and shares his knowledge with audiences at meetups. You can find his articles concerning Kotlin and Android development on Medium and in a blog for Yalantis, where he worked previously.

Abid Khan is an application developer and test engineer with over 10 years of experience. He has worked with different programming languages, including C/C++ and Java, and is now working with Kotlin as a primary language for Android development. Abid is also the author of a book, Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming in Kotlin. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden, and spends most of his time reading books, learning new technologies, and blogging.

H. M.Mahedi Hasan Jisan is currently pursuing his master's degree in computer science at the University of Regina, Canada. He is working in the research field under the supervision of a professor . He completed his B.Sc. in computer science and engineering at BRAC University in 2017. He previously worked as a junior software engineer at Cramstack Ltd., from June 2017 to December 2018. Learn Spring for Android Application Development is the first book that he has worked on as a technical reviewer.

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This book is designed to develop both server and client for an application. We have used the Kotlin language for both the server and client sides. In this book, Spring will be the server-side application, and Android the client-side application. Our primary focus is on those areas that will be able to help a developer develop a secure application with the latest architecture. This book describes the basics of Kotlin and Spring, which will be of benefit if you are unfamiliar with these platforms. We also designed the chapters for implementing security and database in a project. This book delves into the use of Retrofit for handling HTTP requests and SQLite Room for storing data in an Android device. You will also be able to find a way of how to develop a robust, reactive project. Then, you will learn how to test a project using JUnit and Espresso for developing a less bug-prone and stable project.