Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring for Android 1.0!

Spring for Android supports usage of the Spring Framework in a Android environment.

This GA release includes minor fixes and improvements since the RC1 release. See the changelog and reference manual for more information.

A significant change in this release is that the default RestTemplate constructor no longer includes any message body converters. However, an alternate constructor allows you to include a standard set of message converters, similar to previous releases. See the API Javadoc and Reference Manual for more details on this change.

To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available at github.com/SpringSource/spring-android-samples

We want to thank the community for their contributions to this GA release, and we look forward to working with them on future releases. If you are building a native Android app, we encourage you to try out Spring for Android 1.0 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.