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Android Programming

Subject : it-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. It inform the system what intents an application component is willing to accept.






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






3. 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 _____






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






5. Android is __________.






6. Each activity can then start another activity in order to perform different actions. Each time a new activity starts - the previous activity is stopped - but the system preserves the activity in a ___ .






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






8. The helper method is used to create the final width and height values.






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






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






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






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






13. Callback method: The activity is no longer visible






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






15. Android request its permission using its ________






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






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






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






19. Relative to pixels and resolution screen






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






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






22. is run when running Android on the pc






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






24. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






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






27. An open source group led by Google






28. 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






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






30. 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?






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






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






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






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






36. Once a connection has been established - the app uses this method to retrieve the data as an InputStream.






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






38. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






39. 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.






40. 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.






41. It is an HTTP client that is used for applications targeted at Gingerbread and higher.






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






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






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






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






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






47. Use this to draw text.






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






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. It is used as a reverse-geocoding where translating latitude longitude coordinates to a human-readable address happens.