As a test I followed the instructions here, to test how easy it was to not use eclipse. It wasn’t hard at all except for figuring out how to remove an app. First I put the <andriod_sdk>/tools directory on my path so the tools were easily accessible (<android_sdk> respresents the full path to where I install the sdk). Since I had already installed one app, when using eclipse, and the second app I installed had the same name I didn’t know which app was running. I snooped around the debugger, adb, and saw that there was a shell command:
adb shell
I then used the ls command and found data/com.saville.tests and deleted it but the app was still there. While playing with the emulator I also found the the right most icon (yellow folder icon) on the home page (press the house button on the emulator), was the “Applications” folder where applications can be run.
Another important location was the “Dev Tools” icon, which is the silver folder icon with the gear on the right. Here I found by navigating to “Dev Tools/Package Browser/com.saville.tests” I saw that the “Source” of my app was in /data/app/test1.apk. I deleted that and bye-bye test1 from the “Applications” folder.
Further more if I deleted the /data/data/com.saville.tests the information in “Dev Tools/Package Browser” disappeared.