As an emerging Android developer, I must say I HATE SQLITE AND CONTENT PROVIDERS!! So much code for such little functionality! Pro Android devs, does the process get any less tedious down the road with more experience?

It does, once you have a nice codebase where you can just copy paste from

Dunno what's the second thing, but sqlite is cool. If you want it fast, just create the tables with gui and dump the sql to string. It's not that time-consuming to make a class for handling sqlite omg...

And then there's always json.

If you're familiar with LiveView ViewModel and Lifecycles well enough look up Room by Google. You'll still have to write a little SQL, but content providers will be marginally reduced...
There's a couple Code labs available on Developers.google.com, lifecycle aware components and Room by Google.
Trust me, development becomes way more fun with Reactive MV* type ViewModeling.
Or, you can always use Realm for your open source projects

@Cybersapien I'll have to check that out. I actually used Realm and I liked it, but I'm doing a project on Udacity and they rejected my app because I used Realm instead of Sqlite. Now I have to refactor and it's such a pain

@OutdatedPC Ah, on Udacity projects you'll need SQLite and Content Providers. Which one are you pursuing? Android Basics or Android Developer Nanodegree?

@Cybersapien I completed the free Basic courses all ready. Now I'm working on the Android Developer Nanodegree.