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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 available starting with API Level 14 and higher.






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






3. This includes tools to help you identify problems in your layout performance.






4. is run when running Android on the pc






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






6. This is used for the need of finer control over your view's layout parameters.






7. Creating drawing objects within this method significantly reduces performance and can make your UI appear sluggish.






8. It is a string that defines the specific type of access your app is asking for.






9. You can set the layout as the UI for your activity with passing the resource ID for the layout.






10. This class computes scroll positions for you - but it does not automatically apply those positions to your view.






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






12. This class defines abstract methods that you must override so that your database table can be created and upgraded when necessary.






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






14. 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 ___ .






15. This class provides one of the simplest ways to fire off a new task from the UI thread.






16. This class is the basis for handling flywheel-style fling gestures.






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






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






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






20. To define custom attributes - add this resources to your project.






21. 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






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






23. It is used to toggle the enabled state on any component defined in the manifest - including whichever broadcast receivers you wish to enable or disable






24. This is a base class supplied by Android framework - which you can extend to create your own custom authenticator.






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






26. If permissions are missing - the application will get this at runtime.






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






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






29. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






30. Describes the status of a network interface of a given type (currently either Mobile or Wi-Fi).






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






32. Conversion of XML back to an object






33. To create an activity - you must create a subclass of






34. 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






35. The ____ lifetime of an activity happens between the call to onStart() and the call to onStop().






36. In order for the AccountManager to work with your custom account code - you need this class that implements the interfaces that AccountManager expects.






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






38. In most cases this will offer greater bandwidth at a significantly lower battery cost.






39. Use this to draw text.






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






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






42. Evaluation of registered components






43. An open source group led by Google






44. It is called to invoke the search dialog on older devices.






45. The industry standard way to deal with authentication to third-party services.






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






47. For example - if your activity has a thread running in the background to download data from the network - it might create that thread in _____ and then stop the thread in _____






48. This is used to check that you're actually connected to the Internet and what type of connection is in place.






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






50. Allow to combine loosely coupled components to perform certain tasks