Using Website Information Without WebView

I am very new to this, and I more looking for what information I need to study to be able to accomplish this.

What I want to do is use my GUI I have built for my app, but pull the information from a website.

If I have a website that looks like this:

(full website can be seen at http://www.atmequ开发者_Go百科ipment.com/Error-Codes)

What would I need from the website so that if a user entered an error code here:

It would use the search from the website, and populate the error description in my app?

I know this is a huge question, I'm just looking for what is actually needed to accomplish this, and then I can start researching from there. -- Or is it even possible?

What you're going to need is some kind of a web services api on the server you want to search. Then you can post http requests to send and receive information from the server.

you need to add the permision to access internet in your manifest file. Then use the android httpclient to read the website info. You can use the link below as a start.

http://lukencode.com/2010/04/27/calling-web-services-in-android-using-httpclient/