Spring Boot on Android?

Question

Is it possible to run Spring Boot on an Android device?

Right now I am successfully running a web service on localhost using Spring Boot which I've got building in IntelliJ IDEA. I need to get the same web service code running on an Android device. Is it possible to build the web service app into a JAR file that I can get running on an Android phone? I have a Google Nexus 6P running Android Nougat. I've done some limited research, and have found an application called JBED. So far I haven't been able to get this working.

I've started from scratch and built the example JAR:

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gs-spring-boot-0.1.0.jar

and hopefully I can find a way to run this JAR. I'm guessing it probably won't work so if anyone has a better idea that would be great!

Answer 1

You can use i-jetty to host servlet based apps in android. or embed i-jetty (replacing tomcat or netty) in your spring boot app