Q:

Android SDK r18 appears to have broken ORMLite

I am using ormlite v4.35 and I just had to update my android tools to r18 in eclipse, because the IDE would not build my project until I upgraded the tools. After the upgrade the following line throws an error: 
mDbHelper = OpenHelperManager.getHelper(this, DatabaseHelper.class);

The exception is a NoClassDefFoundError
I went to the ormlite website and saw there was a newer version (4.40) downloaded and replaced the reference with the newer version, unfortunately that did not fix the problem. Has anyone run into the issue and resolved it?

A:

The exception is a NoClassDefFoundError

I think your problem is around the new behavior of the libs folder with Android r17 tools.  You must have your ORMLite jars in the libs folder.  This is just the -android and -core class jars -- not the javadoc or source jars which I just put at the root of the project.
Once you move the jars there, the Android builders should see your classes.

