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






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






3. For example - if your activity has a thread running in the background to download data from the network - it might create that thread in _____ and then stop the thread in _____






4. This class computes scroll positions for you - but it does not automatically apply those positions to your view.






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






6. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






7. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






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






11. Use this to draw bitmaps.






12. An open source stand alone database






13. Conversion of an object to XML






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






15. It typically consumes more energy than 3G - which is in turn more expensive than 2G.






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






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






18. This includes tools to help you identify problems in your layout performance.






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






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






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






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






23. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






25. Conversion of XML back to an object






26. 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 ___ .






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






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






29. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






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






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






34. 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






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






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






37. 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






38. Direct component call in Android






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






40. Evaluation of registered components






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






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






43. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






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






46. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






48. 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






49. Your activity should perform setup of "global" state (such as defining layout) in ____ and release all remaining resources in _____






50. Callback method: The activity is being created.