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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. Allow to combine loosely coupled components to perform certain tasks






2. An open source group led by Google






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






4. This broadcasts an action whenever the device is connected or disconnected from power.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Android is __________.






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






14. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






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






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






19. The most common way to define a layout using views is with an XML layout file saved in your ______






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






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






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






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






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






25. Conversion of XML back to an object






26. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






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






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






30. An open source stand alone database






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






32. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






34. 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.






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






36. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. This behaves similarly to a SQLite table - but reads and writes to an object in memory via callbacks - instead of to a database file.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. This is the simplest way to monitor device state changes.