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How is the Nook Simple Touch dev scene these days? Is there any functional alternative to a very old Android version?

Not that I'm aware of, but there are some great projects on the XDA Forums and GitHub I was able to reference in order to make basic apps for Android 2.1.

e.g: https://github.com/usetrmnl/trmnl-nook-simple-touch

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