Couchio , corporate sponsor of the CouchDB NoSQL database CouchDB, announced the first developer preview of the CouchDB SDK for Android devices.

According to Couchio, CouchDB on Android lets you build web-apps or native apps that take full advantage of CouchDB’s built-in, reliable peer-to-peer sync facilities.

Our goal is to provide you with a kick-ass SDK to build web- and native applications using CouchDB as the device-native data store. You will be able to use all your hard earned knowledge about web technologies to build apps on mobile devices.

This release does come with a few caveats. Namely the build is not yet optimized for performance on mobile devices, memory consumption or installation footprint.  Couchio does say that they are working on this and many other areas in a future release.

The source code is available on GitHub. If you are on an Android device, you can install CouchDB SDK for Android directly from the Android Marketplace.