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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Represents the visual representation of an Android application






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






3. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






6. 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?






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






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






9. Conversion of an object to XML






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






11. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






12. Callback method: The activity is being created.






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






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






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






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






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






18. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






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






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






27. It is a lightweight mechanism used to transmit data from a server to a particular app instance.






28. 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 _____






29. This broadcasts all battery and charging details in a sticky Intent that includes the charging status.






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






31. An intermediate state that uses around 50% of the battery power at the full state.






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






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






34. In order for the AccountManager to work with your custom account code - you need this class that implements the interfaces that AccountManager expects.






35. Android request its permission using its ________






36. 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.






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






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






39. A service in which programmers can offer their Android application to Android users.






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






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






42. This is the most common input event in the Android system.






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






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






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






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






47. An open source stand alone database






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






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






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