Can't help you with this precisely, back then I was working with Android 2.3 on Sitara AM3894, I don't know how much has changed since then. But as far as I remember, you should have the necessary toolchain included your Android Rowboat, which you use then to build the kernel and Android itself.
These TI's Android guides are not free from errors because it seems that the same people maintain guides for several platform, so it may happen that file/directory names get mixed up, maybe that's why you don't get any output files.
For applications, I was using Eclipse IDE with Android SDK (for Java parts of application) and Android NDK (for C parts of application), it worked fine but it was messy to set it up properly in the first place.