It's quite a while, but I definitely got DataNucleus running on Android. I wrote a test-program and it worked fine. You already found my pull-request, which fixed quite a few issues in the SQLDroid-driver. I have no idea, if it was ever really merged into the official codebase. https://github.com/cloudstore/cloudstore-experiment here are some old codes which made use of it -- and they worked in the Android-emulator for sure, and IIRC also on my phone back then. Unfortunately, this was never put into productive use, for many reasons -- but not technical ones.