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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A mode where navigation is set up with a spinner widget.






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






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






4. Whenever the device is docked or undocked - this action is broadcast.






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






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






7. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






9. 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?






10. An Activity is an application ______ that provides a _______ with which users can interact in order to do something - such as dial the phone - take a photo - send an email - or view a map






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






12. Android is __________.






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






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






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






16. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






17. Conversion of an object to XML






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






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






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






21. The receiver is triggered whenever the device battery becomes low or exits the low condition by listening for this two.






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






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






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






25. These helpers are specialized classes for backing up certain kinds of data.






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






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






28. An open source group led by Google






29. is run when running Android on the pc






30. This is an interface which is used to pass image data from the camera hardware to the application.






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






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






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






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






35. 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 ___ .






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






37. Use this to draw text.






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






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






40. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






42. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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