Android / Database

I don't think they do but there is a really good tutorial at https://www.simplifiedcoding.net/android-mysql-tutorial-to-perform-basic-crud-operation/ This uses MySQL/PHP and JSON but it gives you all the required steps, and as long as you know Java you should be sweet.

I'm relatively new to android programming, so I could be wrong, but I have years of experience with programming web based systems and mysql and I think the basic premise of the question might be incorrect. When you use sqlite in an android app, both the database and the app live on the device, which is why you can access the db directly.

However, when we're consuming a remote data set (mysql db for instance), you'd wanna use something like a restful API to manage that. The link Ben shared is sort of a simplified api setup, and I think that's probably the "best practices" way to do it. So as a "track" for what you want I'd suggest checking out the json handling classes and then going through the link ben shared.

as a sidenote on json consumption, you could use json server to manage a really simple setup if you just wanted to whitebox your idea with your own data as you learn. (https://github.com/typicode/json-server)