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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. You can set the layout as the UI for your activity with passing the resource ID for the layout.






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






3. 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.






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






5. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






7. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






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






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






10. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






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






13. An open source group led by Google






14. 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?






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






16. Callback method: The activity is being created.






17. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






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






20. This callback method of the audio focus change listener you registered when requesting audio focus receives a parameter that describes the focus change event.






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






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






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






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






25. Conversion of an object to XML






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






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






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






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






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






31. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






32. Direct component call in Android






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






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






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






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






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






38. It is a string that defines the specific type of access your app is asking for.






39. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






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






42. Android is __________.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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