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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. This is used to register and de-register your media button event receiver.






2. 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






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. An open source stand alone database






10. An Activity is an application ______ that provides a _______ 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. Android provides this handy method to direct volume key presses to the audio stream the user specify.






12. An open source group led by Google






13. Are used in activities to create the user interface and to interact with the user.






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






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






16. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






18. It typically consumes more energy than 3G - which is in turn more expensive than 2G.






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






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






21. Callback method: Another activity is taking focus






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






23. Conversion of XML back to an object






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






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






26. Callback method: The activity has become visible.






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






28. Use this to draw bitmaps.






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






30. Evaluation of registered components






31. Where Android is currently primarily developed






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






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






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






35. It provides a single value - called an auth token that represents both the user's identity and the application's authorization to act on the user's behalf.






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






37. To create an activity - you must create a subclass of






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






39. Sharing of data in Android is done via________






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






41. This callback method of the audio focus change listener you registered when requesting audio focus receives a parameter that describes the focus change event.






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






43. 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 _____






44. This is a readable source of bytes.






45. Callback method: The activity is being created.






46. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






47. Direct component call in Android






48. Use this to draw text.






49. Android is __________.






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