I need to access data from an external oracle database from my application android to update the local database application, but I don\'t know what would be the best way to
in Android you can only directly connect with SQLiteDatabase.. if you want to connect with MYSQL or Oracle it is necessory that you have to make web service whether it will be on PHP, .NET or on JSP.. but without web service you can not use oracle in android...
it also can done through JDBC connectivity but i dnt have exact example of that...