From nookDevs

This page is meant to be a wishlist of items we'd like to see on the nook.

Listing on this page does not mean it will happen, merely that someone brainstormed it as an idea.

Add/Link to existing projects (if any), and help improve this page.

Contents 1 Apps 2 Libraries 3 Reader/Book improvements/fixes 4 Connectivity 5 Formerly wishlisted (now exist and work at least a bit)

Apps

• Offline Google calendar app
• Have more than one Reading Now for people that read multiple books at a time or want quick reference
• Offline Wikipedia browser on the nook.
• Twitter
• Email
• IRC
• Instant Messaging (AIM/Jabber/Facebook/Msn)
• Chess/Go/Sudoku/ other board games'
• Connectbot (SSH/terminal)
• Twisty (Interactive Fiction "Infocom" Player - aka Z-Machine)
• Note taking (Remember the Milk integration?)
• Dictionary and Thesaurus application
• PDF Markup app (eInk shows the whole page, touchscreen works like Skim.app)
• Print Nook eink screen and kept as jpeg or gif in some specific library
• Extend file type support with a built-in converter or client for online converter
• GTD Calendar and TODO as ScreenSaver
• GoogleReader offline reading of webpages/feeds
• file browser (with the ability to open, copy, cut, paste and delete)
• Comic reader (cbr, cbz)
• integrate a simple openoffice.org based app to read & edit files (documents, spreadsheets, etc.,)
• reddit and 4chan app

Existing Android Apps that works on the Nook?

Libraries

• Bottoms: How to access them? what are their opcodes?
• GUI Library: File selector that works under the Nook GUI
• My Book: press&hold up/down arrow on the LCD for 2 seconds, for jumping to first/last book on the eink display (this is standard feature of stock My Library)

Reader/Book improvements/fixes

• RELEASE ROOT FOR fw1.4.1, sn >10035··········· (it is possible now)

• Ability to use the dictionary (look up words) while reading a pdf
• fix PDF viewing to allow a font change to persist between page turns
• PDF Zoom ability
• PDF Font de-smooth functions with full hinting (to view small fonts more clearly)
• New format support
  • Mobipocket support? (.prc/mobi - buy at Amazon, unlock and read on nook?)
  • .txt
  • .html
  • .djvu
  • .rtf
  • .doc

** .fb2 (for example by adapted FBReader, it works with Android)

• • .chm
• mp3 playlists
• Support for characters from non-western alphabets (eBooks).

* Adjust date/time (This can be done with system settings)

• Alarm
• Management widget. (weather,...)
• Ability to add books to B&N Library instead of My Documents (for full cover browsing) (Note: you can use the NookDev library to see covers in My Documents, so there's your full cover browsing)
• Folders
• Readernaut integration (update progress, post notes)
• Ability to add other fonts.
• Connecting to Ad hoc Networks (so we can develop without the need for a wifi router) Ad-Hoc WiFi‎
• Ability to automatically sync with a Calibre server at a certain time in Trook
• Text-to-Speech

* Add Chinese fonts(See Asia Lanuage Support https://nookdevs.com/Font_Changes)

• Add parameter for nook to not activate touchscreen by default after returning from safe-mode, only after manual taping touch panel should be activated (that could save battery, if you want only to continue reading)
• Save both power and time by not displaying intermediate pages when user presses PgDn or PgUp two or more times rapidly.
• User preferences regarding speed & acceleration properties of touchscreen swipe gestures. (Default setting seems too sensitive; a slow swipe should scroll a smaller distance than a fast swipe.)
• Rooting capability for new Nooks with serial #s starting with 1003
• Bookmark/goto page # on apdfviewer

- goto option is already there. just long-press on the next/prev arrow buttons in touchscreen. --Hari 16:59, 14 October 2010 (PDT)

• enable the Nook to zoom in and out of full page .pdfs. You can use the buttons and the touch screen (when unlit) to pan around, zoom in & out, the touchscreen being used like a trackball
• enable zoom in either of 2 ways (or both!):
• enable multitouch (it's a capacitive screen?) to be able to zoom in & out like on an iPhone
• press opposite buttons at the same time( < > to zoom in, > < to zoom out)
• enable the nook to rotate books and webpages to view things in widescreen
• to be able to edit a pdfs properties
• to be able to download files on the browser, unzip/rar, then open in reader
• copy/paste text between apps
• to be able to look words up in pdfs

Connectivity

• Turn the nook into an Internet Access Point (IAP) so that other devices (netbook, laptop pc, etc.) can access the internet via the nook's free AT&T 3G internet service. The other devices would connect through the nook using the nook's wifi or the nook's usb port. [COMMENTS MOVED TO DISCUSSION PAGE]

Formerly wishlisted (now exist and work at least a bit)

• • Setting to allow use of non-ATT GPRS/EDGE/3G outside USA
  • Allows full cover browsing of My Documents, including folders
    • Folders
    • thumbnails on user supplied content
  • • install new apps
    • download new books
• Browser - Top men are working on it. Top men.
  • Also a new B&N nook browser as well.
• Pandora
• Python & Java
• Customize forward & backward buttons
• Additional WiFi security options (EAP extensions)
• ADB over USB
• Chess/Sudoku
• Twook - Twitter client