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






2. The visible lifetime of an activity happens between the call to ____ and the call to ______






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. The most common way to define a layout using views is with an XML layout file saved in your ______






7. 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?






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






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






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






11. An open source stand alone database






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






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






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






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






16. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






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






19. 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






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






21. An open source group led by Google






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






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






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






25. Android is __________.






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






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. Use this to draw text.






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






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






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






40. This includes tools to help you identify problems in your layout performance.






41. 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?






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






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






44. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






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






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






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






48. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






49. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






50. Callback method: The activity is being created.