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






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






3. This object contains an account name - which for Google accounts is an email address.






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






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






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






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






8. Android is __________.






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






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






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






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






13. 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?






14. 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?






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. Conversion of an object to XML






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






25. This class computes scroll positions for you - but it does not automatically apply those positions to your view.






26. An open source stand alone database






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






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






29. An open source group led by Google






30. 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.






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






32. 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 _____






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






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






35. Direct component call in Android






36. This is a readable source of bytes.






37. Use this to draw bitmaps.






38. If you want your APK to be visible on TVs which are non-touchscreen devices you should add this to your manifest.






39. Converts XML Document to XML DOM






40. This provides methods to define line's color - whether to fill a rectangle with a color or leave it empty - and defines the color - style - font - and so forth of each shape you draw.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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