Origin

When I started developing Android applications, I already had a passion for the Scala language. At the time, I didn't find any other relevant frameworks. I wanted to learn how to develop Android applications without having to memorize everything I learned, so I decided to capture what I learned in generic Android support code, separate from my application-specific code. I had become familiar with CRUDify from "Lift":http://liftweb.net/ (and the related CRUDLike support in "LiftTicket":http://github.com/dchenbecker/LiftTicket) and wanted something similar for Android. I wanted to remove the burden of all of the boiler-plate code for Android apps from developers, including myself.

Later, I found out about "scala-android":http://code.google.com/p/scala-android/ and "scandroid":https://github.com/humcycles/scandroid. They didn't seem to overlap significantly with scala-android-crud so I didn't integrate it with them, but they should be compatible with it. As time goes by, it will probably make sense to integrate with them at some point.