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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. For example - a ____ might be a button that initiates an action when the user touches it.






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






3. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






4. If permissions are missing - the application will get this at runtime.






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






6. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






8. Creating drawing objects within this method significantly reduces performance and can make your UI appear sluggish.






9. 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?






10. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






18. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






19. 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.






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






21. To create an activity - you must create a subclass of






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






23. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






26. Android is __________.






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






28. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






31. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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