Project stORM: an open source ORM for SQLite on Android

GDG Twin Cities February Meetup

Join us at the Minneapolis CoCo space for a special GDG meetup, where David Chandler will be reprising his Android talk from the sold out Google for Entrepreneurs (http://gfeminneapolis.eventbrite.com/) event earlier in the day.

In partnership with: Google for Entrepreneurs Team

6pm - Doors open for GDG Twin Cities event + beer/snacks
~6:45pm-7:00pm - Short welcome/intro by GDG organizers & CoCo
7:00pm-8:00pm +David Chandler (https://plus.google.com/u/0/102717421433762219474/about) on Project stORM (https://code.google.com/p/storm-gen/): an open source ORM for SQLite on Android
~8:00pm-8:45pm - Q&A / networking

About the presenter:

+David Chandler (https://plus.google.com/u/0/102717421433762219474/about) is an Android Developer Advocate in Atlanta. He fell in love with programming at age 14 on his TI-99/4A and has since worked on everything from a spaceborne GPS receiver to Internet banking and mobile apps. An electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on building Web database applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and has written Web apps in C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, JSF, GWT + App Engine, and Dart. Most recently, he has focused on mobile apps with a special interest in the mobile Web and cloud data synchronization. Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in a relational database and blogs about Java Web and mobile development at turbomanage.wordpress.com (http://turbomanage.wordpress.com/). His most recent open source project is stORM, a lightweight DAO generator for Android SQLite. Outside work, Chandler is an avid outdoor photographer and enjoys teaching math and computer science in a homeschool co-op.

Project stORM (https://code.google.com/p/storm-gen/): an open source ORM for SQLite on Android
Android’s bundled SQLite database is powerful, but requires a lot of hand-coded SQL to get started. Using an ORM can simplify database development for many applications, and the Android ecosystem already has several to choose from. stORM is a lightweight DAO generator written by Android Developer Advocate David Chandler that aims for a streamlined developer experience (only two annotations required) and solid performance (preferring code generation over reflection). stORM is extensible, minimally intrusive, and offers built-in CSV backup / restore capabilities to facilitate database version upgrades. Along with stORM, Chandler will present basic-http-client, a lightweight Java HTTP client with a built-in asynchronous interface.