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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. To create an activity - you must create a subclass of






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






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






4. To respond to media button clicks - you need to register this in your manifest that listens for this action broadcast.






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






6. Once installed on a device - each Android application lives in its own ______






7. Amode where the action bar is set up with tabs for navigation.






8. An open source group led by Google






9. Are used in activities to create the user interface and to interact with the user.






10. It's generally a good idea for one of your APKs to support this texture format as it is supported by all Android-powered devices that support the OpenGL ES 2.0 spec.






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






12. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






13. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






14. Android is __________.






15. This defines how the SearchView behaves and is defined in a res/xml/searchable.xml file.






16. This callback method of the audio focus change listener you registered when requesting audio focus receives a parameter that describes the focus change event.






17. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






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






22. The minimal energy state during which no network connection is active or required.






23. ______ are views derived from ViewGroup that provide a unique layout model for its child views






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






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






26. Theseclasses simplify the steps required to enhance your app with powerful platform features or effectively optimize your app performance.






27. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






28. In order to get a list of accounts on the device - your app needs this permission.






29. Most network-connected Android apps use this to send and receive data.






30. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






31. 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






32. 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






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






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






35. This is the main class through which your application can access location services on Android.






36. The Android framework has a large set of these classes for interacting with the user and displaying various types of data.






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






38. This search feature was introduced in Android 3.0 and can maintain backward compatibility with older versions of Android by using the default search dialog provided by the system.






39. This is the most common input event in the Android system.






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






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






42. Once a connection has been established - the app uses this method to retrieve the data as an InputStream.






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






44. It provides a single value - called an auth token that represents both the user's identity and the application's authorization to act on the user's behalf.






45. A styleable entity that contains these two custom attributes: showText and labelPosition.






46. This class defines methods for drawing text - lines - bitmaps - and many other graphics primitives.






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






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






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






50. It inform the system what intents an application component is willing to accept.