[Galaxy Note II Android Development] Rickav:
Short review?

Do it. You won't regret it.

Some background info: I'm a right finicky bastrad when it comes to minor details or slight imperfections. Sure, I'm looking for a great overall experience, but I only target roms which are as ideal as possible for all of my needs. If you've had a look at the sidebar recently, you may have noticed that the Note II recently received MultiRom support (or at least the N7105 did) meaning it can now boot up CM11/Omni and/or DN3 and/or some other Jellybean rom on an older firmware at the user's choice. That's a lot of potential right there to make a lot of people happy with their phones. For me, it's a one-time deal. One rom; daily driver. If it doesn't fit my needs, change rom. And so that's what I've been doing recently, jumping rom-ships every other day to get a feel most of their USPs (not there battery lives, obviously).

From CM11 (latest M11 snapshot) to last week's Omni's nightly as well as SlimKat's latest weekly and even AOSB's KitKat edition (playing around with stock-based roms is what I did last year and before KitKat came to the Note II). If I were to rate them all (keep in mind that these are based on my personal use) it would be 1. AOSB, 2. SlimKat, 3. CM11 and 4. Omni. I found Omni lacked a number of features that I, daresay, stock-ish roms had while their homebaked OmniSwitch recents did little for me. Then came CM11 and, again, I found the choice of features to be somewhat limited, although this could have been the case as I was using a stable snapshot as opposed to a bleeding edge nightly. Subsequently, SlimkKat: a grand rom. I'm all for lightweight with a lot of details for the user to tinker with and very little else weighing down the device; leaving a blank canvas for the user to paint upon. Things like ListView and hardware button shortcuts for last used app were little extras which really sealed the deal. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for SlimRecents. Matter of personal taste as it is, I believe that the recent apps view is one of the few things that Samsung more or less nailed. Finally, AOSB. The all encompassing ProBam's release. I really wanted to like it. And I mean I really did. It had everything I wanted from SlimKat and a hoard of features I didn't think were possible like multiwindow split view, and in built Xposed which were unaffected but ART as opposed ot Dalvik. Halo, Hover, Appbar, custom ProgressBar you name it; it probably had some variation of it. The flaws: almost too many options. And not all were implemented as desired (split view broken), recents view (I keep coming back to this one, don't I) was severely lacking to say the least (firstly, AOSB devs decided to tweak it just enough to make it noticeably lag compared to stock and you couldn't even choose where the kill all button should be placed).

Finally, crDroid: what I like to think of as a more polished-off version of AOSB (or at least alarmingly similar). This is... What I wanted, to put it simply. You can choose stock recents (hallelujah) as well as position of kill all. A vast majority of the options present in AOSB are avaiable here as well (if I had to nit-pick like a btich, it doesn't have flipping quick toggle tiles from the notification drawer... Kill me). And, it frankly seems smoother than the others (pretty huge feat considering it's an unofficial port).

So to summarise, I'll circle back up to the top. Download it, flash it, you won't regret it.