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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The most common way to define a layout using views is with an XML layout file saved in your ______






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






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






4. 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?






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






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






7. An open source group led by Google






8. Android is __________.






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






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






11. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






30. An open source stand alone database






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






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






33. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






36. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






38. 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 ___ .






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






40. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. Conversion of an object to XML






48. This is a readable source of bytes.






49. Direct component call in Android






50. Evaluation of registered components