This can be used to handle external sqlite database in android. Just edit the name of database, and create your own methods with openDB() and closeDB()

DatabaseHandler.java

/**
 * This file is taken from
 * https://github.com/rbochet/External-SQlite-database/blob
 * /master/src/fr/stackr/android/externaldb/DataBaseHelper.java
 * 
 * @author ayush@click4tab.com
 * 
 */
public class DataBaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {

	// SELECT qb.Ex_id,Q_id FROM questionBank as qb inner join difficulty as d
	// on qb.Ex_id = d.ex_id where level_of_difficulty = '1'

	private static String DB_PATH = "/data/data/com.click4tab.english/databases/";

	private static String DB_NAME = "englishExternalDB";

	private SQLiteDatabase myDataBase;

	private final Context context;
	static int correctAnswerCount;

	/**
	 * Constructor Takes and keeps a reference of the passed context in order to
	 * access to the application assets and resources.
	 * 
	 * @param context
	 */
	public DataBaseHelper(Context context) {

		super(context, DB_NAME, null, 1);
		this.context = context;
	}

	/**
	 * Creates a empty database on the system and rewrites it with your own
	 * database.
	 * */
	public void createDataBase() throws IOException {

		boolean dbExist = checkDataBase();

		if (dbExist) {
			// do nothing - database already exist
		} else {

			// By calling this method and empty database will be created into
			// the default system path
			// of your application so we are gonna be able to overwrite that
			// database with our database.
			// this.getReadableDatabase(); // changed to write
			this.getWritableDatabase();

			try {

				copyDataBase();

			} catch (IOException e) {

				throw new Error("Error copying database");

			}
		}

	}

	/**
	 * Check if the database already exist to avoid re-copying the file each
	 * time you open the application.
	 * 
	 * @return true if it exists, false if it doesn't
	 */
	private boolean checkDataBase() {

		File dbFile = new File(DB_PATH + DB_NAME);
		return dbFile.exists();

		// SQLiteDatabase checkDB = null;
		//
		// try {
		// String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
		// checkDB = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null,
		// SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READWRITE); // changing to writable
		//
		// } catch (SQLiteException e) {
		//
		// // database does't exist yet.
		//
		// }
		//
		// if (checkDB != null) {
		//
		// checkDB.close();
		//
		// }
		//
		// return checkDB != null ? true : false;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see android.database.sqlite.SQLiteOpenHelper#getReadableDatabase()
	 */
	@Override
	public synchronized SQLiteDatabase getReadableDatabase() {
		return super.getReadableDatabase();
	}

	@Override
	public synchronized SQLiteDatabase getWritableDatabase() {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		return super.getWritableDatabase();
	}

	/**
	 * Copies your database from your local assets-folder to the just created
	 * empty database in the system folder, from where it can be accessed and
	 * handled. This is done by transfering bytestream.
	 * */
	private void copyDataBase() throws IOException {

		// Open your local db as the input stream
		InputStream myInput = context.getAssets().open(DB_NAME);

		// Path to the just created empty db
		String outFileName = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;

		// Open the empty db as the output stream
		OutputStream myOutput = new FileOutputStream(outFileName);

		// transfer bytes from the inputfile to the outputfile
		byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
		int length;
		while ((length = myInput.read(buffer)) > 0) {
			myOutput.write(buffer, 0, length);
		}

		// Close the streams
		myOutput.flush();
		myOutput.close();
		myInput.close();

	}

	public void openDataBase() throws SQLException {

		// Open the database
		String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
		myDataBase = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null,
				SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READWRITE // this was readable only
						| SQLiteDatabase.NO_LOCALIZED_COLLATORS);

	}

	public SQLiteDatabase getInstanceOfDB() {
		String myPath = DB_PATH + DB_NAME;
		myDataBase = SQLiteDatabase.openDatabase(myPath, null,
				SQLiteDatabase.OPEN_READWRITE // this was readable only
						| SQLiteDatabase.NO_LOCALIZED_COLLATORS);
		return myDataBase;
	}

	@Override
	public synchronized void close() {

		if (myDataBase != null)
			myDataBase.close();

		super.close();

	}

	@Override
	public void onCreate(SQLiteDatabase db) {

	}

	@Override
	public void onUpgrade(SQLiteDatabase db, int oldVersion, int newVersion) {

	}

	// Add your public helper methods to access and get content from the
	// database.
	// You could return cursors by doing "return myDataBase.query(....)" so it'd
	// be easy
	// to you to create adapters for your views.

	/**
	 * my own open method, makes a call to createDatabase, opendatabase,
	 * getReadableDatabase methods present in DatabaseHelper.java
	 * 
	 */
	public void openDB() {
		try {
			createDataBase();
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			Log.e("DataBaseHelper", e.toString());
		}

		openDataBase();
		getWritableDatabase();

	}

	/**
	 * closes db, makes a call to close() method in DatabaseHelper.java
	 * 
	 */
	public void closeDB() {
		close();
	}
}

Open your database and add a new table called "android_metadata", you can execute the following SQL statement to do it:

CREATE TABLE "android_metadata" ("locale" TEXT DEFAULT 'en_US')
Now insert a single row with the text 'en_US' in the "android_metadata" table:

INSERT INTO "android_metadata" VALUES ('en_US')