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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. It is the process of lowering your audio stream output volume to make transient audio from another app easier to hear without totally disrupting the audio from your own application.






2. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






3. Conversion of an object to XML






4. If you want your APK to be visible on TVs which are non-touchscreen devices you should add this to your manifest.






5. This method returns the inflated View once complete so you don't need to call findViewById() if you need to interact with the layout.






6. The helper method is used to create the final width and height values.






7. An intermediate state that uses around 50% of the battery power at the full state.






8. Evaluation of registered components






9. Android provides this handy method to direct volume key presses to the audio stream the user specify.






10. This handles cases like flaky mobile networks - airplane mode - and restricted background data.






11. The entire lifetime of an activity happens between the call to _____ and the call to _____






12. It is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.






13. This action is used in sending text content from one activity to another.






14. is run when running Android on the pc






15. _____ are views that provide a visual (and interactive) elements for the screen - such as a button - text field - checkbox - or just an image.






16. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible.






17. It made implementing an effective and user friendly share action in your ActionBar even easier.






18. The back stack abides to the basic "last in - first out" stack mechanism - so - when the user is done with the current activity and presses the Back button - it is popped from the stack (and ____) and the ____ activity resumes






19. An Activity is an application ______ that provides a _______ with which users can interact in order to do something - such as dial the phone - take a photo - send an email - or view a map






20. Where Android is currently primarily developed






21. This is set up to animate for the duration of the fling.






22. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






23. It is an HTTP client that is used for applications targeted at Gingerbread and higher.






24. Your activity should perform setup of "global" state (such as defining layout) in ____ and release all remaining resources in _____






25. This can be used to draw previews of what the camera sensor is picking up.






26. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






27. When an activity is stopped because a new activity starts - it is notified of this change in state through the activity's _______ .






28. You can reacquire the necessary resources and resume actions that were interrupted. These state transitions are all part of the _________






29. It is used as a reverse-geocoding where translating latitude longitude coordinates to a human-readable address happens.






30. The dock-state details are included as an extra in a sticky broadcast of this action.






31. Callback method: The activity is being created.






32. The visible lifetime of an activity happens between the call to ____ and the call to ______






33. These helpers are specialized classes for backing up certain kinds of data.






34. This object contains an account name - which for Google accounts is an email address.






35. This is used to convert raw touch events into gestures.






36. This is used to fetch the account names that the user has stored on their device.






37. Each activity can then start another activity in order to perform different actions. Each time a new activity starts - the previous activity is stopped - but the system preserves the activity in a ___ .






38. Android system uses a special virtual machine to run java based applicatons






39. This widget as an item in the action bar is the preferred way to provide search in your app.






40. The ____ lifetime of an activity happens between the call to onCreate() and the call to onDestroy().






41. PieChart exposes a custom event to notify listeners that the user has rotated the pie chart to focus on a new pie slice.






42. It doesn't currently support the <merge/> tag in the layouts to be inflated.






43. This is a lightweight view with no dimension and doesn't draw anything or participate in the layout.






44. Direct component call in Android






45. It is a free service for sending messages to Android devices.






46. It is used to load images in a background thread - then apply them to the UI once finished.






47. Used when a connection is active - allowing the device to transfer data at its highest possible rate.






48. This is used to register and de-register your media button event receiver.






49. Use this to draw text.






50. The receiver is triggered whenever the device battery becomes low or exits the low condition by listening for this two.