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






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






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






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






5. Where Android is currently primarily developed






6. It provides a simple way to perform your work outside the main thread.






7. When a new activity starts - it is pushed onto the ____ and takes user focus.






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






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






10. 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 ___ .






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






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






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






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






20. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






21. It is the process of lowering your audio stream output volume to make transient audio from another app easier to hear without totally disrupting the audio from your own application.






22. 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?






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






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






25. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. An open source group led by Google






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






35. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. For example - a ____ might be a button that initiates an action when the user touches it.






42. It is available starting with API Level 14 and higher.






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






44. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






45. Android request its permission using its ________






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






47. 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?






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






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






50. 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