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






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






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






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






5. It is a subclass of PreferenceActivity.






6. This is set up to animate for the duration of the fling.






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






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






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






10. Use this to draw text.






11. Perform background tasks without providing a user interface






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






13. An open source group led by Google






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. This widget as an item in the action bar is the preferred way to provide search in your app.






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






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






23. This is a readable source of bytes.






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






25. Necessary tools to develop Android applications






26. is run when running Android on the pc






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






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






29. This broadcasts an action whenever the device is connected or disconnected from power.






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






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






32. 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 ___ .






33. Direct component call in Android






34. 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?






35. 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.






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






37. Shows the actual amount of memory the application uses






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






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






45. This is a base class supplied by Android framework - which you can extend to create your own custom authenticator.






46. It's generally a good idea for one of your APKs to support this texture format as it is supported by all Android-powered devices that support the OpenGL ES 2.0 spec.






47. Android system uses a special virtual machine to run java based applicatons






48. The dock-state details are included as an extra in a sticky broadcast of this action.






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






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