The most spread method to connect to a remote MySQL database from an android device, is to put some kind of service into the middle. Since MySQL is usually used together with PHP, the easiest and most obvious way to write a PHP script to manage the database and run this script using HTTP protocol from the android system.
We can code the data in JSON format, between Android and PHP with the easy to use built in JSON functions in both languages.
I present some sample code, which selects data from a database depending on a given condition and creates a log message on the android side with the received data.
Lets suppose that we have a MySQL database named PeopleData, and a table int created, with the following SQL:
