How can I use ORMLite with SQLCipher together in Android?

Question

I would like to use OrmLite with SQLCipher in my Android project, but both libraries have their own abstract SQLiteOpenHelper class to implement. Java don\'t a

Answer 1

How can I use ORMLite with SQLCipher together in Android?

It should be possible @Bruno.

One way that should work is to just copy ORMLite's OrmLiteSqliteOpenHelper class into your project, rename it to LocalOrmLiteSqliteOpenHelper or something, and change the base class to be the SQLCipher helper class. I can't believe they didn't rename the class to be SQLCipherSQLiteOpenHelper. (grumble)

public abstract class LocalOrmLiteSqliteOpenHelper
    extends info.guardianproject.database.sqlcipher.SQLiteOpenHelper {

Another way would be to have your helper extend SQLCipher's SQLiteOpenHelper and then implement the various things you need from OrmLiteSqliteOpenHelper yourself. That would take a bit more work however. ORMLite has to do a little dance with database connections while the database is being created otherwise it goes recursive.

Let me know if either of these work.