NITdroid is working on N8x0 hardware quite well, and I'd like to collect some info on where we can get apps and how well they run. First, here's a quick summary of how to load apps onto NITdroid. To get adb working, follow the instructions at http://code.google.com/intl/fr/andro...devicehardware. If you're using Windows, you'll need gowen's modified android_usb.inf file from http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...&postcount=243 as well. FYI, the adb program will be in android-sdk-windows-1.0_r2/tools after you've downloaded and unpacked the SDK.

To check that adb can talk to your tablet, run

If adb reports `offline' instead of `device', try unplugging the USB cable. I need to do this after rebooting the tablet to make adb happy again.

You can use adb for lots of things other than loading apps. For example, to start a root shell on the tablet use the command:

This provides a handy way for rebooting off the tablet too:

To load applications onto the tablet, you first need to download the .apk files to your host. For example, http://www.androidfreeware.org/ has a few applications, and Meebo.apk seems to run just fine. To install Meebo, I used the command:

and Meebo showed up in the tray automatically.

So, where can we find more apps? I'd really like to find a native multiprotocol IM app, as the one provided with Android doesn't seem to work on my tablet (I can't find a way to add accounts) and Meebo is actually using an HTTP proxy service rather than talking to the IM servers directly. Is there a way to get apps from the marketplace without using the app shipped with the G1?

Thanks to gowen, maxkilla, and jcl for info I've summarized here.