Category Archives: Open Source

greenrobot-common 2.3 with improved ObjectCache

Version 2.3 of greenrobot-common was just released and brings a new cache implementation: as the class ObjectCache suggests, caches a number of objects in memory. The API is used in a key-value like fashion, very much like a Map. It comes with a couple of cache-specific features though:
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Multimaps in greenrobot-common 2.2

We just released greenrobot-common 2.2, a small utility library that we use in almost every project. This version adds multimaps, which are absent from standard Java and Android.  Unlike a regular map, multimaps allow multiple values for a single key.
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Community Contributions

As of now, we didn’t accept any code contribution (pull requests) from the community. This is going to change in the near future. As a first step, we have released the greenrobot Contributor Agreement today. If you plan to make contributions you need to print, fill out, and sign the agreement. We need you to send a scanned copy of the agreement to: opensource (at) greenrobot (dot) de.
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greenDAO 1.1 Release

Since the 1.0 release of our Android ORM tool greenDAO, we saw greenDAOs’ community activity growing. During the last four months we collected developer feedback and added our own experience with greenDAO. Version 1.1 does not come with big changes, but brings evolutionary new features and fixes:
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greenDAO 1.0 Open Source Release

Today, we are happy to announce version 1.0 of greenDAO, which is also the first open source release. With this release, we think greenDAO is ready for a wide developer audience. The preview versions of greenDAO proved to be stable and some apps in the Android Market already use greenDAO. Android developers, stop messing around with SQL, start with greenDAO! 😉
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