ORMDroid is a simple ORM persistence framework for your Android applications, providing an easy to use, almost-zero-config way to handle model persistence without ever having to deal with Android's built-in database interfaces.

ORMDroid is:

• Small - ~20k, target of no more than 30k.
• Simple - No excessive features or support for platforms other than Android.
• Flexible - Allowing you to configure what you need to, but at the same time...
• Automatic - ... sensible defaults for everything.

ORMDroid works with Android API 8 and up.

Getting ORMDroid

You can either download ORMDroid from the download page, or check out of Git.

If downloading a packaged release, you'll need to unzip the file somewhere, and then import the project into your Eclipse.

Getting started

To use ORMDroid, you need to set up ORMDroid as a required library in your android app. If you're using Eclipse, go to project->properties->android and add ORMDroid as a required libray. Now, you just need to add a single XML tag to your AndroidManifest.xml as a child of the Application tag:

<meta-data
  android:name="ormdroid.database.name"
  android:value="your_database_name" />

And initialize the framework somewhere (e.g. Application.onCreate, or even in your activity's onCreate since there's no penalty for calling initialize multiple times):

ORMDroidApplication.initialize(someContext);

Then you create your model:

public class Person extends Entity {
  public int id;
  public String name;
  public String telephone;
}

And work with it as you see fit!

Person p = Entity.query(Person.class).where("id=1").execute();
p.telephone = "555-1234";
p.save();

There is also an object-oriented query API:

import static com.roscopeco.ormdroid.Query.eql;

// ... later

Person person = Entity.query(Person.class).where(eql("id", id)).execute();
p.telephone = "555-1234";
p.save();

That's it! If you want more customization over e.g. table names, column names, etc, take a look at the Table and Column annotations.

There is a more detailed version of these instructions in this blog entry

Update: There is now a very simple sample app available for ORMDroid. You can get it from Git:

git clone https://github.com/roscopeco/ormdroid-example.git

For more information, check out this blog entry.