To run these frameworks, we need some tools and a specific operating system. Here is the list of these:

• Operating system: Linux and macOS are recommended for development because we can find all the required packages for these OSes and they are lighter than Windows.
• IDE: My recommended IDE is IntelliJ IDEA (Ultimate version). This is the best IDE for Java, but you have to purchase it to use it. You can also use Eclipse and Netbeans; only one of these is necessary to develop Spring applications. We will show all the projects in IntelliJ, but we will also learn the setup of the environments for Spring in both IntelliJ IDEA and Eclipse.

You can find all the examples from this chapter on GitHub: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Learn-Spring-for-Android-Application-Development/.