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Same, that plus the Material Glass CM12.x theme is great. You get to see the live wallpaper in places other than the home screen!
You can find a theme on the Play Store and use an xposed module to add only the status bar portion of the theme. I have the Material Glass theme with only the status bar portion enabled, and this is what it looks like.
I'll start off by saying that I have more projects than the average student. Part of this was to help me decide to switch from Pharmacology (with a CS minor) to Software Engineering in U2, which naturally is a big transition well into my degree. I had to be sure I'll actually enjoy what I was getting into.
Most of my projects are open source on my github.
Notably:
- In 2013, when I got my first Android and didn't know how to code, I started working with Android theme engines. It doesn't involve coding, but you basically decompile apks and recompile them with different resources to change how they look. I made what I believe to be the first theme for Android lollipop (Material Glass), which ended up getting around 700k downloads over 3 years.
- In 2015, when I entered McGill, I made my own website. It was mainly to share notes and have my own domain, and the source is on my github. This was probably the only web project I had until 2017.
- Towards the end of 2015, I created AllanBot, which was mainly a chatbot for Facebook messenger. It ended up getting other features like reminders and todo lists, as well as being able to notify you when a new lecture recording is out. Facebook ended up banning my bot account pretty frequently so I no longer maintain it.
- In 2016, I joined McGill's Computer Taskforce, where I made an Android client for internal use. I later on contributed a notable part to our printing system used in Burnside, which is one of my few non Android related projects.
- In 2017, I created an android library, KAU. This was just to help me maintain and reuse my code, but it ended up being used by other devs to the point where I actually got bug reports.
- In 2017, I also created a Facebook web wrapper, Frost. It ended up getting around 100k downloads on the play store before it got pulled, and I now maintain it as a free project on F-Droid.
The projects certainly took a lot of time, but in doing things as a U1 and U2, they also saved me a lot of time in my comp courses. I didn't really know how to code until the summer before university (2015) when I read the textbook used in comp 202, but ultimately these projects taught me concepts learned in 202, 206, 250, 302, and 303 before I took the classes.
If you want to speak about projects in an interview, I think some key points are (in order of importance) how long you've worked on the project, how much you've contributed to the project, and how useful your project is. Again, I think that few students have projects that they maintain for over a year; it's hard to explain the significance of a project if it was created in a few days for a hackathon (or a job interview) and then forgotten. In terms of contributions, a lot of emphasis is placed on independent projects, as they showcase you. It's hard to gauge a candidate based on a few commits they've made to a big third party project. Usefulness is entirely up to you. I would personally focus on how useful the project is to yourself so that you actually have an incentive to work on it. If it's useful to others and it becomes bigger, then that's great too.
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Edit: I'll also mention that I've had no prior internship experiences, apart from one contract job I got from a friend. I certainly am also biased in what I think is important, but I emphasize projects so much because anyone can do it. As a student (or open source developer), you get a lot of tools that you'd use in real work settings for free. There's so many resources online to get you started, and you also don't depend on anyone like a professor. This is what makes CS unique. I wouldn't have been able to just do projects/research in Pharmacology all by myself.
Has anyone tried Material Glass yet?
I'm using material glass on substratum theme engine.
Material Glass
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pitchedapps.material.glass.free&hl=en
Couldn't figure out Magpie even with the install instructions.
I'm thinking material glass may go well with it
So does anyone know any icons similar to material glass
You can install mods on it, xposed and/or busybox lets you add mods. Also, putting the Default Launcher for CM And some Themes if you'd like (I prefer the Material Glass one ) will really help you, and sidenote: XPosed is your best friend. Ad blockers, Youtube background play, pokemon go controllers, all of the things you wouldn't be able to do without xposed, or paying.
I got them from an RRO theme .https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pitchedapps.material.glass.free
Material glass is pretty damn sexy. No idea on icons however. Check it out https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pitchedapps.material.glass.free
I've been using Material Glass for a little while, and quite enjoy the transparency of the notification drawer.
Material Glass using Layers.
The transparency effects are pretty neat.