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






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






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






4. The Android SDK tools include a tool that allows you to analyze your layout while your application is running.






5. 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 ___ .






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






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






8. It is a lightweight mechanism used to transmit data from a server to a particular app instance.






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






10. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






11. It is available starting with API Level 14 and higher.






12. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






13. Answers queries about the state of network connectivity. It also notifies applications when network connectivity changes.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






30. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






32. The easiest way to create an authenticator class is to extend this and implement its abstract methods.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. An open source group led by Google






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






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






42. 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?






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






44. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






46. For instance - when stopped - your activity should release any large ____ - such as network or database connections.






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






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






49. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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