You can build an android app that uses web technologies: HTML, CSS, Javascript - essentially it'd be like showing a web page but you envelope it with an app. Then you can run with the idea of serving data to it on the network from your PC, but don't need to really use the Android SDK and Java.
There's a good O'Reilly book on the subject:
Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Looks like it's even freely accessible online.
