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






2. Android request its permission using its ________






3. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






4. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






5. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






8. An open source group led by Google






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






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






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






12. On a rooted device - the credentials would be readable by anyone with this access to the device.






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






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






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






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






17. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






18. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






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






21. 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?






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






23. Android is __________.






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






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






26. It includes a Detailed Network Usage tab that makes it possible to track when your application is making network requests.






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






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






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






30. This class exposes a number of methods for applications to receive location updates.






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






32. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






34. 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 _____






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Use this to draw text.






44. Callback method: The activity is being created.






45. 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






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






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






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






49. 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.






50. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus