Best Android ORM to merging with remote REST servers

Question

After search, I found ORMLite is the first Android ORM but I found ORMLite does not provide a solution for merging with remote REST servers.

How can I sync data between a webserver and an android app through ORMLite or other orm?

Answer 1

Try to use https://github.com/Raizlabs/DBFlow

It has a Direct-to-database parsing for data such as JSON so you can easily do the mapping from web service response to local database.

Check this example:

https://github.com/Raizlabs/DBFlow/blob/master/usage/ModelContainers.md

Answer 2

Basically on mobile platform we have very less open source frameworks which provides both ORM and RESTful service on all the major platforms (Android, iOS, Windows).

Based on my research, please find below some of the most popular frameworks available in different areas:

ORM

• Android: OrmLite, GreenDAO, Active Android
• iOS: FMDB
• Windows: dapper-dot-net, Simple.Data

RESTful

• Android: Restlet, Retrofit
• iOS: RestKit
• Windows: ServiceStack

You can also check Siminov Framework which provides both ORM and RESTful service. It is available on all the major platforms (Android, iOS and Windows 8.1).