I just launched the paid version of my app and now I need to make a free version of it.. this will only require some minor changes in my code.. but the package name needs to be different..

How do I do this?

Normally, you would take this into account when designing the app and name the packages appropriately. However, since you are just now making this decision, you can simply refactor the package names from within Eclipse and make the changes you need within the code itself.

don't forget to delete packages/classes that are not needed in the free version .. i would exclude all of them ...

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I don't recommend you cloning because you will die in merging changes. Create a copy of current project and set it as library. Then Create two different project with two different namespaces (free and paid). In every project set reference to library project and create a manifest file with full library namespaces.
Google more about that.

For difference between free and paid I recommend you to create some class in library project like that:

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private static Boolean _marketCheck = null;
   public static boolean useMarketCheck(Activity c)
   {
      if (_marketCheck == null)
         _marketCheck = c.getResources().getBoolean(R.bool.marketCheck);
      
      return _marketCheck;
   }

and create xml file in /res/values/something.xml:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
    <bool name="marketCheck">false</bool>
    <bool name="ads">true</bool>
</resources>

You then need to copy that xml file in every project which will override library resource file.

That's it. You will now have only one project (library), free and paid are more or less empty (only resources and manifest).