How to access data in android app from MySQL and display even in offline mode?

I am new in android development. I am developing android app for news portal. I want my users to be able to read news even when there is no Internet connection, somehow similar to twitter feed. I need advice about connecting server data from SQLite. I see two options for now: connecting directly to MySQL or generating XML data in server in /rss page and synchronize using scripts. Which one will be better? Or is there any other option?