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






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






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






4. 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






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






6. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






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






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






9. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






10. 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






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






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






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






14. Direct component call in Android






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






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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?






19. It made implementing an effective and user friendly share action in your ActionBar even easier.






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






21. This handles cases like flaky mobile networks - airplane mode - and restricted background data.






22. 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 _____






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






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






25. 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?






26. In order to get a list of accounts on the device - your app needs this permission.






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






28. In order for the AccountManager to work with your custom account code - you need this class that implements the interfaces that AccountManager expects.






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






30. It is a free service for sending messages to Android devices.






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






32. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






48. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






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