I was taking a look at the nook developer site on barnesandnoble.com and noticed that their claim is:
The NOOK Tablet SDK contains the following components:
Android Virtual Device (AVD) Emulator
Android Debug Bridge (ADB) configuration settings
I was wondering if that means that everything else is exactly the same as the android sdk except the emulator plugin and the adb settings?
Thanks
You are correct - it is similar to the LG, Sony, Motorola SDK add-ons that are loaded as part of the official Android SDK.
The current links are below (but note that these seem to change quite often and are correct as of Jan 2012 - register and check with NOOK regularly).
[NOOK Tablet, API 10] http://su.barnesandnoble.com/nook/sdk/Nook_Tablet_addon.xml
[NOOK Color, API 8] http://su.barnesandnoble.com/nook/sdk/addon.xml
Once installed via android sdk manager (use Tools >> Manage Add-on Sites ), it should automagically update ADB drivers on Linux/Mac Osx and have emulators available via AVD.
You can run "android update adb" in order to get ADB functioning. I havent tested in Windows but this should be similar.