Best Way to access data of Size more than 2MB in Android via WebServices and store in Sqlite

I am trying to store some data on my Android App in SqliteDb Tables.

The size of the data is about 2-5 MB.

I have two options,either get the data from server in :

1. XML Format via HTTPrequest so that I can parse the xml and store to local Sqlite db or


2. Get the Sqlite table file directly via HTTPrequest so that I can copy the table to my local Sqlite db.

Please advise which process will be quicker parsing the XML data or copying the Sqlite table directly.

Thanks in advance.