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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. This class exposes a number of methods for applications to receive location updates.






2. 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.






3. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






4. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






6. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






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






9. It is an efficient and maintainable way to parse XML on Android.






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






11. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






13. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






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






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






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






18. Conversion of an object to XML






19. Use this to draw bitmaps.






20. An open source stand alone database






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






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






23. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






24. 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.






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






26. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






28. is run when running Android on the pc






29. When a view is created from an XML layout - all of the attributes in the XML tag are read from the resource bundle and passed into the view's constructor as a what?






30. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






31. When a new activity starts - it is pushed onto the ____ and takes user focus.






32. Each time a new activity starts - the previous activity is stopped - but the system preserves the activity in a _____ (the ______).






33. A service in which programmers can offer their Android application to Android users.






34. Callback method: The activity is about to be destroyed.






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






36. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






37. It typically consumes more energy than 3G - which is in turn more expensive than 2G.






38. A mode where navigation is set up with a spinner widget.






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






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






46. 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.






47. Binary data is shared using the ACTION_SEND action combined with setting the appropriate MIME type and placing the URI to the data in an extra named called?






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






49. This provides methods to define line's color - whether to fill a rectangle with a color or leave it empty - and defines the color - style - font - and so forth of each shape you draw.






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