Android database version in configuration file

Is it possible to keep the version of database of an Android app in any configuration xml e.g. Strings.XML ; instead of keeping it as variable in SQLiteOpenHelper subclass.

Atleast is it possible to read from such XML when class is loaded.

e.g.

public class MySQLiteHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper {
private static final int DATABASE_VERSION =   /// Some code to initialize version from config file
:
:
}