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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. If you want your APK to be visible on TVs which are non-touchscreen devices you should add this to your manifest.






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






3. An open source group led by Google






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






9. This is a readable source of bytes.






10. Direct component call in Android






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






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






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






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






15. 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 ___ .






16. Where Android is currently primarily developed






17. 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?






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






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






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






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






22. PieChart exposes a custom event to notify listeners that the user has rotated the pie chart to focus on a new pie slice.






23. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. These helpers are specialized classes for backing up certain kinds of data.






35. 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?






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






37. is run when running Android on the pc






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






39. The helper method is used to create the final width and height values.






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






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






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






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






44. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






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






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






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






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






50. 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 _____