Getting null ints from sqlite in android

I have an issue that may in fact be a design issue but I am struggling to find a way around it. In my sqlite database in my android application, I have a table called `Customer`. This has around 40 columns of various string and int data types. In practice, any of these columns may or may not be null. In my code, I have a function simply called `getCustomer()`, which queries the database for a specific customer, and places all their cells from the database into a `Customer` class, which contains variables for each column. I can then pass that customer object around as I wish. The `getCustomer()` function returns this `Customer` object. My problem is integers which may be null. I am familiar with how `int` cannot be null in java, but how `Integer` can be null. But my problem actually lies in the fact that the cells in the database can be empty (eg null). For string columns, I simply do this: ``` Customer cust = new Customer(); cust.firstName = cursor.getString(0); ``` If `cursor.getString(0);` returns a null value, then the `firstName` variable is assigned null. Nice and simple. However with an int: ``` Customer cust = new Customer(); cust.daysSinceJoining = cursor.getInt(5); ``` The above crashes at run-time if `daysSinceJoining` is null. So I tried the following: ``` Customer cust = new Customer(); if (cursor.getInt(5) != null) cust.daysSinceJoining = cursor.getInt(5); ``` However this gives me a compiler error, as you cannot use an `int` in a null comparison like that. How can I get around this problem? How can I retrieve an int from an sqlite database when the int value could be null?