I am fairly new to programming around the Android system. From what I know of it it is primarily JAVA? correct me if I am wrong. Which with JAVA I am not superbly familiar with either. However Programming in general I am fine with. This said I am trying to figure out if theres any core frameworks that are good to work with. I know theres the stock SDK but is there anything else. Example of what Im trying to say is, for JavaScript theres Jquery, for Ruby theres rails, for CSS theres bootstrap.

I am trying to find something along the lines of that for the android platform, but not only a framework but maybe a link to some material or examples I can use to figure out how to take my local side app on the phone and communicate with my web site/service and I don't mean a mobile version of the site through the mobile browser Im talking about a stand alone app communicating with scripts on the site and the DB directly.

Can anyone help me out here?

just for reference I've searched passively on and off for my answer over the months as I am not fully ready to dev an app on android as of just yet, but I am looking to find the resouces so when I am ready I can jump right into it. Any help would be appreciated I just cant seem to find the right answers on my own.