Get the field value with a Cursor

I think you can forget about checking for null.

Instead check if there is data and then access the columns using the cursor:

Cursor cursor = fetchOption(0);

if (cursor.moveToFirst()) // data?
   System.out.println(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("title")); 

cursor.close(); // that's important too, otherwise you're gonna leak cursors

It might also make sense to read an Android tutorial. The notepad tutorial seems to fit the bill: http://developer.android.com/guide/tutorials/notepad/index.html

You can use the Cursor's get* methods to retrieve values from the result:

long id = cursor.getLong(cursor.getColumnIndex("_id"));
long title = cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("title"));
...

Better practice is obviously to use constants (often provided by ContentProviders) instead of calls to getColumnIndex with hardcoded strings.