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NookTouchTools for NSTG is now superseded by Nook Touch Mod Manager, which achieves all the functionality of NTT excluding customising the side bezel button actions. If you prefer NTT's interface and can live without the features listed in the TO DO section below, please read on...

About

This thread documents the attempt to bring XorZone's NookTouchTools mod to the Nook Simple Touch with Glowlight (hereafter 'Glowworm'). Great strides have recently been made by LastSilmaril (big props!) and we've now reached the point where an 'official' release is justified.

The aim of NookTouchTools is to allow customisation of the purpose of all the buttons of the Nook, both hardware and on-screen, excluding the power button on the reverse of the device.

In our Glowworm version there remain some elements not yet working as compared to NookTouchTools installed on a standard Nook Simple Touch:

- QuickNav bar icons are not yet customisable

- the QuickNav bar GlowLight icon is not yet remappable

- a long press of the 'n' button will both toggle the glowlight and activate whatever action NookTouchTools has assigned to long press

Please note that our version numbering does not match that of the original NookTouchTools thread, since our jars are being developed in isolation from that work. he upshot is that the version number shown within the Nook Touch Tools app once installed will not match the version of the jar files we release here. This is entirely normal and correct.

Disclaimer

As with all community-based mods, we do not take responsibility for any Bad Stuff™ arising out of the use of these files. You use them entirely at your own risk and a prior complete backup is heartily encouraged.

What's New

Jars 1.1.5 beta0 - no changes from alpha10, however the code's quality now justifies a move to beta release. File attached at the bottom of this post.

How to Install

Follow the instructions in this post, which includes links to all the files you'll need.

To Do

- Assigning icons to remapped B&N QuickNav buttons

- Implementing remap of the B&N QuickNav Glowlight button

- Separating the Glowworm's long click to switch on the light from NookTouchTool's default long press which shows the Recent Apps menu.

Version History

beta0 - identical to alpha10 but we decided the quality now justifies a beta release.

alpha10 - fixed the flaw in the Shop quicknav button launch code that prevented launch until the Shop was assigned using Launch Application in NTT.

alpha5 - first release supporting remapping of the Quicknav bar buttons (excluding 'GlowLight').

alpha3 - first 'official' release, supporting remapping of side buttons and Reading Now button only.

Thanks

XorZone for his original work

LastSilmaril for breathing life into this stalled project and putting in most of the coding effort towards piecing together jars worth releasing

roustabout, GabrialDestruir and RenateNST for input, guidance and advice

Original Post

Hi all,

So despite Gabrial's warnings I went ahead and installed NookTouchTools on my Glowworm that I'd rooted with GlowNooter.

As I half expected, I ended up with a device that wouldn't boot (the now-familiar backlight-coming-on part way through the boot sequence followed by reboot).

On this basis, I'm now going to decompile the two framework jars that are supplied with NookTouchTools and compare the contents against those from the Glowworm (OS 1.1.5) to see if I can work out what tweaks to make to them to get it all to work. If anyone has any advice I'm all ears! For example, are the Android SDK tools enough for what I want to do or do I need (some version of) the Avabox tools?

yan

P.S. I'd post this in the developer forum but, as an XDA newbie, I'm not allowed :(