Currently Armory expects access to raw block data as saved by Core, via a folder path. 0.93 expects full history so it can't deal with anything short of the entire blockchain. 0.94 could run off the UTXO set, if there is a node implementation that offers that. You won't have the history, but you will see your balance and be able to spend.
I am in the process of migrating the database interface from SWIG to a plain HTTP, so that upcoming change will allow you to connect several lite clients to a single server. Since it's HTTP, we could even have a HTML GUI in the future.