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Connecting Android Studio and SpringBoot

This document provides a step-by-step guide for connecting an Android app to a SpringBoot server to add a record. It covers creating an Android project, adding necessary libraries for HTTP communication using Retrofit and Gson, defining the object model, and setting up API communication. Additionally, it includes instructions for managing permissions and running both the SpringBoot and Android applications to ensure successful data interaction.

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Connecting Android Studio and SpringBoot

This document provides a step-by-step guide for connecting an Android app to a SpringBoot server to add a record. It covers creating an Android project, adding necessary libraries for HTTP communication using Retrofit and Gson, defining the object model, and setting up API communication. Additionally, it includes instructions for managing permissions and running both the SpringBoot and Android applications to ensure successful data interaction.

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Connecting Android App and SpringBoot – Adding a record

1. Create an empty android studio project.

2. Get the Libraries needed for http communication from Maven Repository.

Retrofit – is type-safe REST client for Android and Java which aims to make it easier to consume RESTful
web services. Retrofit 2 by default leverages OkHttp as the networking layer and is built on top of it. (It is
easier to construct the http request using retrofit compared to OkHttp. Retrofit is an improved version
of OkHttp) Retrofit automatically serialises the JSON response using a POJO(Plain Old Java Object) which
must be defined in advanced for the JSON Structure. To serialise JSON we need a converter to convert it
into Gson first.
Converter Gson – the data to be used for reading and posting are in json format. We need an adapter or
converter that will easily convert the request and response to and into json.
.

3. Add these 2 libraries in build.gradle(Module) dependencies as shown below

Note: There will be errors after adding the retrofit and gson dependencies. Edit them as follows:
// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.squareup.retrofit2/retrofit
implementation("com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.9.0")

// https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.squareup.retrofit2/converter-gson
implementation("com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.9.0")

You should be able to build the project without errors after adding these 2 libraries.
4. Create the object model. (Just copy the “User” object model from Springboot project then paste
in the “model” package in android studio. Remove annotations). Result is as follows:

5. Add a package named retrofit then create a class named RetrofitService. We will initialize
retrofit to enable communication between the android app and the SpringBoot server.
6. Write the following codes

Specify the location of the Springboot server. You can check the address as follows:
For the server port addess, check from IntelliJ as follows

7. Specify the API structure. To do this, create a UserAPI interface and write the codes shown
below.
Check the URI/paths against the ones specified in the SpringBoot API

8. Create a project in Android Studio. Create an activity as shown below.

9. Write the codes shown below in MainActivity.java


Note: enque is used to allow asynchronous access to data.

10. We need to give permission to our app for the network access so we need to add 2 permissions
in AndroidManifest.xml. Write the codes shown below.
10 . It is also possible to get the following error in accessing the port which is there to guard against http
requests.

Fix the error by adding the following codes:


android:usesCleartextTraffic="true">

11. Run the application

a. Start MySQl Workbench. Create a schema named “userdb”

b. Run the Springboot UserAPI application. Extract the attached UserApi.zip provided here and
run it in IntelliJ using this command mvn spring-boot:run

c. Run the Android application

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