How can Android application access a centralized database

I am w开发者_高级运维orking on an application which has large amount of data in a database. I know that it wont be feasible for me to package this huge database along with the app. I can only think of setting up a central database, so that the app can access it. I am new to android. I thought about using web-services or a http webpage request.

any suggestions for this?

thanks, Naveen

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Of course, be familiar with the topics outlined in the Data Storage Developer's Guide.

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html