Why Don't All Apps Work?

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Hey guys, so me and my best friend bought Nook Tablets yesterday after seeing all the cool things that the rooted Color could do. Weve been playing around with it, and with the help of some threads here have gotten Go Launcher and all those basic apps to work like the Amazon Store and file managers and such.

Ive also got a fun game called Zombieville USA working after many attempts. However, for some reason not every apk i try installing works, and i was wondering why that is. For example, i tried for a while to get GameBoid working so i could play GBA games. It would install, then ask me to locate a bios file, which i then downloaded and got it to recognize, but after i open the actual Rom, it would run for a second and then stop.

Other apks give parsing errors, others just dont work. My friend just successfully got Fruit Ninja to work, and thats pretty much been our achievement of the hour. Were new to android and the tablet scene for that matter, but very well acquainted with jailbroken iPod Touches.

tl;dr why cant i get every app to work? Thanks for taking the time to help

Apps that don't work

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One of the reasons might be that the Nook Tablet has only a subset of the hardware the typical Android Smartphone has.

No GPS, no accelerometer, etc.

Even some of the hardware it does have, like blue tooth, has no software drivers in the stock Nook operating system.

If the application you are trying to run is dependent on one of those missing resources, it may well fail. Missing libraries might be downloadable.

Your best bet will be applications known to run on the Amazon Fire, which has a comparable feature set. Rest will be try it and see.

Alright that makes sense, thanks. Ill go look around that forum then and see what i can dig up