title: Local database on Android tablet
body: <p>We need to have some kind of app that we can deploy to an Android tablet.  The app must be able to run without internet.  We need to have a database, preferably SQL.</p>
  
  <p>I've been researching the options on how to create a mobile app with local storage and the options are not good.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>The W3C standard is Indexed DB.  But this is ugly and cumbersome code.  It seems like it would take forever to create a large app.</li>
  <li>Web storage is a little better</li>
  <li>We'd like to use jQueryMobile and wrap it in PhoneGap.  Is there a way to install a local server on an Android tablet so we can incorporate PHP and MySQL?  I can't find anything. </li>
  <li>There's LocalStorage in HTML5, but I'm not sure if that's the way to go.  It is the simplest to code, certainly.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>What are your thoughts?  We'd like to use jQueryMobile and PhoneGap so we can deploy to an iPad if we ever decide to go that route.  That's why I didn't include a native Android app with an SQLite database. Or would this be a better way to go (assuming we don't want the iPad option)?</p>
  
  <p>Please let me know when you get a chance.  Thanks.</p>