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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






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






5. Describes the status of a network interface of a given type (currently either Mobile or Wi-Fi).






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






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






8. Evaluation of registered components






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






10. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






11. Direct component call in Android






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






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






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






15. It is a lightweight mechanism used to transmit data from a server to a particular app instance.






16. It inform the system what intents an application component is willing to accept.






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






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






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






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






21. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






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






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






24. This class defines methods for drawing text - lines - bitmaps - and many other graphics primitives.






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. An open source group led by Google






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






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






44. Theseare a key part of Android applications that directly affect the user experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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