“Minimal” source files to create Android app using Eclipse + ADT

Question

I am trying to understand the anatomy of a MINIMAL Android application, using Eclipse + ADT (Android Development Toolkit).

Please can you advise what is the MINIMAL

Answer 1

You can actually get away with just a single MyActivity.java and the manifest file, if you inflate the layout programatically. Later Eclipse Tools will create many more files (in ..drawables, layout, menu, values) by default. You can however delete them all if you make sure that the manifest doesn't refer to any icons or strings. I guess it's not seen as good practice, but it can be done.