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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. You can reacquire the necessary resources and resume actions that were interrupted. These state transitions are all part of the _________






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






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






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






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






6. 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 _____






7. The entire lifetime of an activity happens between the call to _____ and the call to _____






8. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






14. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. This is an interface which is used to pass image data from the camera hardware to the application.






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






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






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






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






26. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






27. 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?






28. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






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






31. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






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






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






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






49. 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.






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?