A lot of stuff works without libraries
I think you can try if you like the IDE and the look and feel of B4A without libraries very well.
And if you want, just take the cheapest licence option, it won't cost that much.
I had used Basic4PPC before and just was so excited to find the android version. Although I know Java, Eclipse and so on: Basic4Android is really THE RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT environment for mobile applications (just a pitty it does not exist for iOS, too...)