As mentionned in the ormlite documentation :

By default, most of the DAO methods throw SQLException which is the default internal exception for most JDBC and other SQL calls. But in Android-land, especially, most of the exceptions extend RuntimeException so having to put a lot of ignored try ... catch stanzas is inconvenient.
For this reason we’ve added a RuntimeExceptionDao which wraps all calls to the underlying DAO to rethrow the SQL exceptions as runtime exceptons.

I think the @OrmliteDao annotation should handle this. The annotated field type could be Dao or RuntimExceptionDao (currently only Dao is accepted), and according to this type, the relevant constructor will be used to assign the field.