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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. An _______ is an application component that provides a screen 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.






2. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






4. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






5. Evaluation of registered components






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






7. This broadcasts all battery and charging details in a sticky Intent that includes the charging status.






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






9. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






10. This widget as an item in the action bar is the preferred way to provide search in your app.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






18. An open source group led by Google






19. 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 ___ .






20. This is used to check that you're actually connected to the Internet and what type of connection is in place.






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






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






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






24. This class is the basis for handling flywheel-style fling gestures.






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






32. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. Where Android is currently primarily developed






41. Use this to draw text.






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






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






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






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






46. This is set up to animate for the duration of the fling.






47. 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.






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






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






50. Binary data is shared using the ACTION_SEND action combined with setting the appropriate MIME type and placing the URI to the data in an extra named called?