It was just a matter of time, but this was fast! Apps porting on the rooted Nook has started.

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Few days after rooting the new Barnes & Noble Nook, Robbie at Nook Devs has succeeded putting Pandora on the eReader:

Running Android Apps

Robbie has apparently had success with getting pandora running on the nook by employing a VNC server on the nook. If confirmed, this confirms the hypothesis that the problem with other apps is with the input portion.

Steps to use VNC to control input

1. Download androidvncserver from http://code.google.com/p/android-vnc-server/
2. In terminal run: adb push androidvncserver /data
3. adb shell chmod 755 /data/androidvncserver
4. In a ADB Shell session (NOT like previous commands, just run adb shell) run: /data/androidvncserver -k /dev/input/mice &
5. Open your favorite VNC client and connect to NOOK_IP:5901

Running apps

For now there is no launcher screen that we can use so we have to use the am command.

I’m sure people will be asking so here is the pandora.apk: http://pandora.android.s3.amazonaws.com/pandora.apk

Installing apps

1. Download the app you want. Google for it, we aren’t gonna tell you where they are
2. In terminal run this command: adb install APP.apk. It will show some output and hopefully tell you its done!
3. Run adb shell
4. Using the pandora app as a example you would run: am start -n com.pandora.android/.Main

You can find the com.pandora.android part of the URL by doing pm list packages in adb shell

Read more: http://nookdevs.com/Nook_Reversing#Running_apps#ixzz0ZsI3qjQC

The detailed procedure is not for every one… and we don’t encourage you to brick your Nook playing with this hack.

However, while waiting for some official fixes to the slowness problems pointed by many users, follow the progress of the guys at Nook Devs on their way to unleash the hidden power of the Nook.

Via: Nook Devs