I want to know whether a particular table exists in my SQLiteDatabase or not, programmatically.
Is there any method to do that?

If you want to know that because you want to create the table if it doesnt exists, use

create table if not exist neededTable (...)

If you want to know that for any other reason, use

select name from sqlite_master where name='neededTable'

and fetch the result: 0: does not exist, 1: exists

The select query will return a cursor. How can i fetch an integer result from it?
Pls make it clear.

You dont know how to use a database-cursor?
Why do you want to know about the existence of a database-table if you dont know how to work with it?

read the docs.

I used cursor.getCount() method to find the number of rows in the cursor. But, i get 'cannot find symbol' error for getCount() method.

Try using cursor.moveToFirst() prior to the cursor.getCount() call