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Originally Posted by LoganK
It would have been relatively trivial if they had done what Amazon did for their Android application (quick port, presumably add features later). This, however, appears to be designed for a smaller display with a higher refresh and touch capabilities, not just the nook software dumped onto an Android.
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It's still a fairly straight port. Android is modular, and OEMs can build a custom image tuned to their hardware and the features they plan to support. I believe touch screen support is a standard Android offering, if the device it's built for has the requisite hardware.
The question is how much requires actual programming in the app, and how much is the app using whatever the underlying OS and hardware make available. They may not have had to change that much.
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Still, I'm already missing color selection, search for text (only Aldiko supports that), and adding my own content. (I may be close to getting this last one to work, but I'd like a solution that doesn't require root access.)
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Good luck on the last. A friend got a Nokia 900 tablet (the first of the line to also be a cell phone) while the wife and daughter got Android phones, because with Nokia's Maemo Linux implementation, he could
get root...
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Dennis