Yeah but to me Android dev seems to be too much dependent on IDE which I'd say a bad choice and impedes development. Why can't it be as simple as a bunch of fi

Yeah but to me Android dev seems to be too much dependent on IDE which I'd say a bad choice and impedes development. Why can't it be as simple as a bunch of files in a folder, a build file, a manifest, and an asset directory? That's what most apps need.