[Q] Need help to populate a listview from external source

[getja]

I'm pretty new to java and somewhat new to android and I've been looking everywhere for the past 3 or 4 days but cant seem to find the answer to my question. I'm making an app that is pretty simple and has only one real main function and that is to pull movie names, release dates, and the movie's format (dvd, blu-ray etc) into the app automatically from a very simple file that I will host on my server.

Now I I'm currently able to input the needed information manually via a base-adapter and a strings file within each months activity but I want to have the ability to push the information remotely which will then give my app (and myself) the ability to update the information as well as to place it into the 3 line listview format that I've already established.

Now I've been reading about Simple:XML, gson, SAX, etc but seeing as the information is just 3 small lines of text (again just the movie name, date and format which doesn't use much space and will be using the same string format for all 12 months) my question is what would be the best route as to the format of the file (i.e. xml, json, plain text, etc) and how would I go about getting this information into my app on the fly? I've included some code snippets below in the hopes they will make my question a little more clear.

I've posted this on several other forums and android dev sites and nobody seems to be able to give me some guidance or simply will not reply at all. I cannot continue on my app until I'm able to figure this out and seeing as it is completed aside from this problem it is becoming a very frustrating experience. I'm hopeful that someone here will be able to give my some help out. Thank you in advance.


The string for each result

public class SearchResults {
    private String Name = "";
    private String Date = "";
    private String Format = "";

    public String getName() {
    return Name;
    }
    public void setName(String Name) {
    this.Name = Name;
    }
    public String getDate() {
    return Date;
    }
    public void setDate(String Date) {
    this.Date = Date;
    }
    public String getFormat() {
    return Format;
    }
    public void setFormat(String Format) {
    this.Format = Format;
    }

This below is where the actual list-view is populated and shown. Each new search result creates a three line text-view.

private ArrayList<SearchResults> GetSearchResults(){
    ArrayList<SearchResults> results = new ArrayList<SearchResults>();

    SearchResults sr1 = new SearchResults();
    sr1.setName("Movie #1");
    sr1.setDate("July 24th");
    sr1.setFormat("DVD, Blu-Ray");
    results.add(sr1);

    sr1 = new SearchResults();
    sr1.setName("Movie #2");
    sr1.seDate("July 19th");
    sr1.setFormat("DVD, Blu-Ray, Digital");
    results.add(sr1);


    return results;
    }

 

[getja]

Can anybody help me with this please?