Excellent advice Thesis for computer science

The requirements for a "thesis" not only vary with degree level (Master's, Ph.D.), but also vary from institution to institution, and, within an institution, from department to department.

A Master's Degree in English may, in one University be fulfilled by an original creative work; in another, historical/critical/analytic work may be the "going rate."

An ambitious scientific thesis based on experiment may still be valuable even if it shows no result in terms of correlation; a terrible English essay means doom.

For a Master's Degree, the student may have wide-scope to select a topic/focus-area from. For a Ph.D., the thesis topic is most often narrowly selected from a range determined by the major professors the student has worked with and plans to have on their thesis committee, and by the specializations the student has pursued.

In general, I'd expect either Master's or Ph.D. student to have some strong ideas about what their thesis would be on by the time they get to it, and I'd question the competency of any student who did not have some strong ideas ... at that point in their studies.

On a practical level: do some research on your school/department:

1. What theses have been done and accepted.

2. what theses have been done in the shortest time periods.

3. what professors on thesis committees "track records" are: what are their criteria for an acceptable thesis.

3.a. think carefully about what professors you feel comfortable with working with: it is critical that they "buy in" to your proposal.

4. do some reading of the theses accept in the last two years, and make notes.

Keep in mind that if you start a thesis and get "into it," without careful planning, and then need to change it, you may be delaying your graduation by a very long time.

You know what, without a perfect vision about a specific topic you can't build something that could break the ground. The purpose of every thesis work not only limits to build something extra-ordinary.
In your graduate level thesis work, a task regarding your skill shows the ability of your thinking or vision behind your work and proves your eligibility to bring ideas into implementation. You can't just hope somehow you make an automated system without having advance knowledge in proper field and suddenly get a call from IBM!
Its you who needs to think a lot about how can you change the way of your thinking to make something that could make a history(or a job!).

I thought people writing a thesis should be more independent. But there is nothing wrong in seeking for an advice. The only problem is how t seek for it. I think you need not just the idea of the project, but rather the idea on where the project ideas come from and how to get to a good idea.

First, please see my blog post on the topic: Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov - Professional Profile - CodeProject[^].

Are you getting the hint?

For further ideas, please see my past answers:
Please suggest a good concept for my .NET project ?[^],
JAVA final year projects[^],
Need Project Ideas Help me Plz[^],
Can you suggest a topic for my Senior Project? Programming[^],
how to improve my technological capability[^],
One Challenge in WPF Programing[^].

I would add specifically on Android: this platform is relatively fresh. Despite enormous level of development activity, you can easily find out that you cannot find a ready-to-use solution for many things you would like to do, more exactly, too many of the solutions don't provide required features and quality yet. There are too many unsolved problems. Following my advice expressed on the past answers referenced above, you can always look for something you wanted to have on your Android device, you or your friends and relatives. The only problem will be picking the one you are qualified enough to solve withing the required time frame. But you are the only one who can judge on that.

—SA