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






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






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






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






5. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






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






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






9. Evaluation of registered components






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






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






12. 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?






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






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






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






16. The ____ lifetime of an activity happens between the call to onCreate() and the call to onDestroy().






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






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






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






20. is run when running Android on the pc






21. An open source stand alone database






22. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






23. An open source group led by Google






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






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






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






27. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






28. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






31. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Most network-connected Android apps use this to send and receive data.






39. 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.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






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






47. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






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






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






50. It is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form.