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Kotlin Programming By Example

You're reading from Kotlin Programming By Example Build real-world Android and web applications the Kotlin way

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788474542

Length 500 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Kotlin

Tools

Android

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Iyanu Adelekan

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Dedication

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. The Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Building an Android Application – Tetris

3. Implementing Tetris Logic and Functionality

4. Designing and Implementing the Messenger Backend with Spring Boot 2.0

5. Building the Messenger Android App – Part I

6. Building the Messenger Android App – Part II

7. Storing Information in a Database

8. Securing and Deploying an Android App

9. Creating the Place Reviewer Backend with Spring

10. Implementing the Place Reviewer Frontend

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Index

Deploying the messenger API to AWS

Deploying a Spring Boot app to Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a straightforward and enjoyable process. The deployment procedure can be done well within 10 minutes. In this section, you will learn how to deploy applications based on Spring to AWS. Before application deployment, we must set up a PostgreSQL database on AWS that the application will connect to.

Setting up PostgreSQL on AWS

The first thing you must do is create an AWS account. Go ahead and create one now by following this link: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/start . Once you have signed up, login into the AWS console and head over to the Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) (from the navigation bar, click Services | Database | RDS). Once taken to the RDS dashboard, click on Get Started Now:

You will be navigated to the Launch DB instance web page. Here you will need to make some selections pertaining to the DB setup. Select PostgreSQL as the DB engine to be used:

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Authors (1)

Iyanu Adelekan

Iyanu Adelekan

Iyanu Adelekan is a software engineer who enjoys solving problems in the web and Android application domains. He loves working on open source projects and is the author and lead maintainer of Kanary, a Kotlin web framework for building RESTful application programming interfaces. In addition to building software, he is passionate about knowledge sharing and algorithms. He enjoys reading sci-fi and playing chess in his spare time.

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